Brendan Moran wrote:
> > IDC ribbon cable with strain relief (the "fold the cable through
> > and secure" type as found on the better IDE disk drive cables),
> > mated to a female socket with "locking ears" on the PCB.
>
> Sounds like a good solution, but what would you do in a situation
> using, say, 6 conductors?  AFAIK 6conductor IDC connectors are
> practically unavailable.  Just find some use for the extra 4 wires?
>
> - --Brendan
>
> P.S. I've never liked wires hard-soldered to a PCB.  I've always
> thought it's bad design.
>

   May be you should have look inside CD-ROM, FDD,
HDD or printer (ink-jet or dot-matrix).

   Mike.

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