[sdiy] DIP cables

[greg montalbano]

At 12:47 PM 12/9/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Have you considered rolling your own????
>
>You just need the sockets and some ribbon cable....
>
>It's not hard to do if you have the special little press/vise base that allows
>the DIP socket pins to be protected when the cable & socket are pressed
>together....
>
>I'm sure you could fabricate a wooden jig that would work in a standard
>bench-top vise....
>Cheers,
>Jeff

Yah, I was hoping to avoid that, but it looks like I'll have to.
Was just hoping that, since these things were so plentiful a decade or so 
ago, there might be a stash sitting around in some surplus warehouse someplace.
Ah, well -- if I wanted something easy, I would never have opened up my 
first synth...

~GMM