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Source for good DB-25 cables?

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pmc:

--- Quote from: bullrees on September 15, 2012, 01:57:36 pm ---Monoprice has excellent cables. I purchased many different types from them and they were all high quality.

http://www.monoprice.com/products/search.asp?keyword=db+25

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I use them a lot for audio and video stuff. I thought I looked there before posting here. Anyway, this one looks like it fits the bill. It's $5.35 plus shipping.

Lilwolf:
when I bought mine, best prices were on ebay ("25 pin m-m cable serial" or "25 pin m-f cable serial").  I found someone selling them for a few bucks.  I bought 3 or 4 m-f and 3-4 m-m and have the f side on the arcade machine, and m on the control panels.  I was going to do the same for some vga cables for joystick controls, but I haven't got around to it (and I found I had to recalibrate between each swap, which made making it easy less important.

sharpfork:

--- Quote from: pmc on September 14, 2012, 08:28:14 pm ---color-coded cable like in the old days. It'd make soldering much easier.

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I've been picking up belkin db25 cables like PL1 posted and the wires are color coded and map to the same pins on every cable.  Here is one I was testing:

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