Bulk Lots of DB-19s for Sale
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by zdw
1 day ago
| 5 comments
| bigmessowires.com
| HN
Suppafly
2 hours ago
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That's nice of him to part with some, but I feel like most people would rather buy a few than 1000 of them.
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nxobject
1 day ago
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Note that this is only for male DB-19s (i.e. for peripherals). Alas, you'll still have to hoard your battery-bombed vintage motherboards for female DB-19s. (Or hopefully use a physically different but electrically compatible connector...)
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noobermin
21 hours ago
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May be after some success he can decide to sell female db 19 ports
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HeyLaughingBoy
15 hours ago
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Huh. This reminds me that I have a box of IDC Centronics printer connectors somewhere. Should see what the going rate is on eBay.
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threeio
1 day ago
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I bought two for my NeXT a bit ago.. crazy how expensive the real DB-19 cables are
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justsomehnguy
1 day ago
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rasz
20 hours ago
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BMOF dropped over $10K into those connectors and even then I wondered why does he think he can recoup that. There isnt enough retro enthusiasts to sell enough Floppy Emu. Its been almost 10 years and sounds like he is still sitting at over 9K spares.
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shlip
19 hours ago
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He's probably got less than 9,000 left according to the article though :

> I was able to arrange a “group buy”[...]

> Next step: re-ship the majority of these DB-19 connectors to the other people in the group buy.

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justsomehnguy
13 hours ago
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>> These DB-19 connectors (19-pin D-SUB) were newly manufactured in 2024 for my vintage computer hardware company

There were a couple of re-runs.

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