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Source for 5-pin "dice" style DIN plugs?

Danj
Danj over 1 year ago

Does anyone know where I can find a 5-pin DIN plug with the pins in a "dice" or "domino" configuration? Non-locking as it will be connecting to a panel mounted socket. Type of signal is serial port, I actually need to make up a cable with one of these and a DB9 on the other end, for use with a retro computer (BBC Micro). 

Seems like these types of connectors are rare these days and I've been having trouble finding one. 

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  • beacon_dave
    beacon_dave over 1 year ago +2
    CPC still do them https://cpc.farnell.com/deltron-enclosures/611-0520/5-pin-domino-black-din-plug/dp/CN00054 Buy Now
  • colporteur
    colporteur over 1 year ago in reply to beacon_dave +1
    It looks like DIN connector has different meanings. Nothing like a picture to understand that your DIN and my DIN are the same.
  • electronicbiker
    electronicbiker over 1 year ago in reply to beacon_dave +1
    Yes, those are the ones! Thanks beacon_dave, I'll get a couple in before they dry up altogether. I always remember the RS484 port as a 'domino' from happy days with a BBC Micro, a packet radio TNC, a…
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  • electronicbiker
    0 electronicbiker over 1 year ago

    Actually known as 'domino' plugs, available from CPC and Farnell, several sleeve types and colours, average a fiver each.

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  • electronicbiker
    0 electronicbiker over 1 year ago in reply to electronicbiker

    Wow! They've changed from 'Domino' to 'Dice'! When did that happen? Talking of oddball DIN plugs, does anyone know where to get a 5-pin in-line DIN plug? Used on old Philips tape recorders as a high-impedence input for crystal record-player cartridges, the pins were rectangular with one turned 90 degrees to provide orientation when plugging-in.

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    0 beacon_dave over 1 year ago in reply to electronicbiker

    CPC still refer to it as 'domino'.

     

    electronicbiker said:
    does anyone know where to get a 5-pin in-line DIN plug

    Do you mean these ?

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoG1UH81PAw

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    https://philipsag9015.home.blog/2019/08/13/connectors/

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  • electronicbiker
    0 electronicbiker over 1 year ago in reply to beacon_dave

    Yes, those are the ones! Thanks beacon_dave, I'll get a couple in before they dry up altogether.

    I always remember the RS484 port as a 'domino' from happy days with a BBC Micro, a packet radio TNC, a crystal-controlled Yaesu 2-metre walkie-talkie, and, of course, a Class A licence to keep it legal, probably mid-80's. 

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  • beacon_dave
    0 beacon_dave over 1 year ago in reply to electronicbiker
    electronicbiker said:
    I always remember the RS484 port as a 'domino' from happy days with a BBC Micro

    If I recall correctly, the BBC Micro used RS-423 for serial.

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  • electronicbiker
    0 electronicbiker over 1 year ago in reply to beacon_dave

    You are absolutely right - I wasn't happy with 'RS484' when I replied, something was nagging at my brain but it was getting late so I decided to ignore it. Or, it could be long covid or the effects of the jabs that are supposed to be preventing me from getting it.

    Originally a Model A I soon fitted the extra RAM to enable Model B software to run, and allow the extra screen modes to be used, then I fitted the diode around the cassette on/off relay, the extra ROM sockets soon got used up, the speech chips were added (I could then call a friend of mine with 'CQ G4xxx' without having to do it myself) and found that the Beeb would follow Morse Code up to 25wpm with a simple BASIC program that auto-tracked the speed, and I could transmit using the keyboard instead of a key, marvellous days...  Then came one 40-track single sided disk drive, improving as time went on up to a pair of 80-track double-sided. A Watford Electronics ROM expander board arrived, and by this time a fan became necessary. Later, with an A5000, I still have a 'JoyMouse' converter allowing a joystick to be used instead of the mouse, how on earth anyone can fly an aeroplane with a mouse I do not know. JoyMouse had an early PIC chip in it, the one with four A-D converters on board.

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    0 phoenixcomm over 1 year ago in reply to electronicbiker

      electronicbiker A long time ago I had a PC (game port-to-USB adapter, for my first stick, which days chained to my stick and throttles. Thank you SunCom!!! ~~ Cris h.  

    pm. see NexGen: Hacking the Dual Throttle Quadrant.

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    0 phoenixcomm over 1 year ago in reply to electronicbiker

      electronicbiker A long time ago I had a PC (game port-to-USB adapter, for my first stick, which days chained to my stick and throttles. Thank you SunCom!!! ~~ Cris h.  

    pm. see NexGen: Hacking the Dual Throttle Quadrant.

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