28 Feb
2020
28 Feb
'20
6:19 a.m.
On Feb 27, 2020, at 8:26 PM, Nigel Johnson via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
More in the trivia department, the DA15 was used for AUI interconnection in the 10base-5,
-2, and early -T days, as well as analog joysticks.
I'm surprised to see wikipedia saying that the high-density ones had DA to DE
designations, I have only seen them in catalogs with full part numbers. Could this be a
backronym-style regression?
DA through DE designates the shape of the connector shell, so this makes sense.
As the article mentions, D-sub shells were also used for mixed pin inserts, such as the
pin plus coax combinations used in early workstation monitor connectors. Same story:
standard shell, different pin insert within that shell.
paul