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In message Wed, 26 Oct 1994 15:45:34 -0500 (CDT), strat@dsd.northrop.com (Scott Stratmoen) writes: >> The cable is the problem - it isn't the normal ribbon type cable. It >> looks like metal etched onto a flexible plastic backing. The widths >> of the plugs on either end are different so the cable compresses the >> wires into a smaller width at one end. > > It's a flex pwb. I don't have time to deal with this, but someone with > pwb software could layout that cable in a few hours. Getting together a > group purchase shouldn't be that hard. Sounds like beginnings of a plan to me. :-) Do you know someone that can manufacture this stuff? > The connector on the thinkpad > should be possible to obtain. Why doesn't someone post on the compuserve > forum and see if one of the product engineers will give out the part > number. Well I don't have a CompuServe account so if someone else could do this, we'd be much obliged. > Otherwise look in a Digikey catalog, for example. That's where I found the (standard) hard drive plug. I'm still leafing through that and other catalogs looking for the two other parts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ John H. Kim | "Mike Espy simply forgot he was no longer a Congressman." jokim@mit.edu | -anonymous, on the Secretary of Agriculture's resignation jokim@uni.uiuc.edu | due to conflict of interest charges for accepting gifts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------