 IHDVGA (Inconveniently High Density VGA) extension lead. IHDVGA was abandoned early on as keeping pins straight turned out more difficult than expected. Most manufacturers still turned a profit by selling the leads without shells as convenient groundable wire brushes. 48 comments
 @NanoRaptor The physical connector would later be reused for the Super Duper Parallel SCSI standard  @hukaulaba @NanoRaptor it seems like this standard could be called "narrow wide" without a hint of irony    @flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social oh no it's fucken real :akko_sob:  @NanoRaptor This design was better than you give it credit for. State of the art error correction protocols allowed full speed data transfer even with 9% of the pins missing or crossed.   @NanoRaptor The extreme insertion force required meant that its userbase was limited to only robots and lumberjacks. @NanoRaptor Assuming someone could successfully mate the connectors, I think the force needed to pull them apart would be “inconveniently high”.   @NanoRaptor nice touch having a bent pin in the pic. Catches the spirit of HD-68 perfectly.  @NanoRaptor I love how the problem is so extreme that even the stock image provided here shows at least two bent pins, lol. I wonder what this was needed for? The VGA connector seemed to be able to carry pretty high quality signals as far as anything during that sort of era goes. I'm sure it could be improved upon, but I would imagine more separation of signals or something with only a few more pins at the most. Not that insanity...  @NanoRaptor It's a fake. No chance anyone would design and manufacture a technology so unusable. @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Wait, is it just me, or is there a bent pin on the bottom row O_O  @NanoRaptor if I didnt miscount its actually a DE-162 (three rows of seventeen , three rows of sixteen and two rows of fifteen )   @NanoRaptor I didn’t see the pins in the thumbnail image at first and assumed that was one of those NFC VGA cables.   @NanoRaptor >bent pins on the picture
Your post seems like a joke but the picture seems real(ish?) wtf.   @NanoRaptor fairly sure i've run into this exact connector on some pieces of broadcast equipment.  @NanoRaptor I present you the DF-104. And of course the way to test pin bending is standardised.  @NanoRaptor The replacement standard using BGA instead of pins was more successful, but getting the connectors to line up perfectly was still fiddly. And the fact that it said "BGA" on the packaging confused buyers looking for a VGA cable. @NanoRaptor I think I made it 121 pins, am I sad for wondering and trying to calculate it? @NanoRaptor some more pins and it could be a parallel HD cable with 3 pins per pixel (one per color).  @NanoRaptor Reminds me of when I got my first pentium and dropped the cpu and bent every single pin @NanoRaptor I've seen several regular VGA cables with bent pins. This would've been a nightmare to keep straight.  @NanoRaptor I’m messing around with Cisco HD-60 cables right now and they are frighteningly not that dissimilar. The bent shell on the picture in the seller’s website really drives home the reliability and robustness.  @jgeorge @NanoRaptor This is reminding me of parallel HIPPI cable and not in a good way. The unseen part of having 50 or 60 pins in a connector like that is where you have to have a cable with that many (or more, for grounding) conductors. Managing HIPPI cabling was an exercise in python-wrestling ... |
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@NanoRaptor i love how the connector in the photo already has bent pins. excellent