[comp.sys.ibm.pc] PC/XT rear panel connectors

daved@cscnj.csc.COM (Dave Douglass) (08/17/89)

Anyone know of a electronics supply place that sells rear panel connectors
for a PC/XT style case?  I'm talking about those little metal strips that
are used to cover the hole left by an empty slot in the PC; I need to get
some pre-punched and mounted with DB-25 and DB-9 connectors.

I've called a couple of places that supposedly carry EVERYTHING and none of
them carry these things.  Can somebody tell me where to get them?
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Dave Douglass  Computer Sciences Corporation  Piscataway, NJ  08854
...!rutgers!cscnj!daved

kaldis@topaz.rutgers.edu (Theodore A. Kaldis) (08/20/89)

Sorry to post this, but mail bounced.

In article <123@cscnj.csc.COM> daved@cscnj.csc.COM (Dave Douglass) writes:

> Anyone know of a electronics supply place that sells rear panel connectors
> for a PC/XT style case?  I'm talking about those little metal strips that
> are used to cover the hole left by an empty slot in the PC; I need to get
> some pre-punched and mounted with DB-25 and DB-9 connectors.

> I've called a couple of places that supposedly carry EVERYTHING and none of
> them carry these things.  Can somebody tell me where to get them?

Find some place that puts together clone boxes.  Around here, you
might try PC Warehouse on southbound Rt. 1 in Edison, or Super
Software just behind the Mobil Station on Northbound Rt. 18 in East
Brunswick (near Crazy Eddie).  This is no guarantee that they they
will have them -- but it seems that this will be your best bet.

Otherwise, take a look in COMPUTER SHOPPER (a big, tabloid-sized
magazine chock-full of clone ads).  It is available at B. Dalton in
the Woodbridge Center (in the back, where they have all the computer
books and the software).  It comes out late in the month and sometimes
sells out by mid-month.

I have a bunch of those strips, btw, but none of them are punched for
any connectors.

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> Dave Douglass  Computer Sciences Corporation  Piscataway, NJ  08854
> ...!rutgers!cscnj!daved
              ^^^^^

I have it on good authority that RUTGERS in fact does NOT recognize
this machine (even though both are located in Piscataway).
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