>> OK, how about using 1/2 a 14 pin DIL IC socket ...
>
>Now that is a truly interesting idea... How do you keep the
>thing together? Solder the cable to the pins and somehow insulate?
>I don't see how to slid any heat shrink onto the joint...
>Perhaps cover in potting compound or silicon rubber?

Umm, I was thinking somewhat differently - use a DIL socket that has two 
strips of plastic separated by cross ribs, cut the cross ribs, and solder 
what is now a 7 pin SIL socket strip into the PCB, and plug the cable into 
that.

However I am not sure that you will not need to choose the type of socket 
carefully. I think you will need one of the el-cheapo ones with the folded 
flat contacts to take that sort of cable, rather than the more expensive 
turned pin type. 

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