old 386 pc, vga port - but one pin is blocked?

[Antonio Carlini]

J Blaser wrote:
> I doubt it would hurt any future use of the cable to pull/break the
> pin on your monitor cable, but if you want to keep that side of
> things stock, you could use a 1/32" bit and drill out the position on
> the motherboard's connector, to allow the pin to pass through the
> plastic.

Well a 386 may not count as vintage yet (or ever ...) but isn't it more
in keeping with the spirit of what we do here to hack, twist and bend
the modern to fit in with the old, where possible? Shouldn't the OP pull
a pin on a common or garden cable rather than drill a mobo connector?

Antonio