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- From: jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele)
- Subject: Dot's all
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.183317.4101@techbook.com>
- Organization: TECHbooks of Beaverton Oregon - Public Access Unix
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:33:17 GMT
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- Keith Lofstrom showed me a neat idea: mark pin 1 with a yellow (or
- orange or red or whatever) dot. The problem with changing some PC
- hardware around is that it's not obvious which pin is pin 1. Some are
- numbered, some have a square pin instead of the usual round pin, but
- many aren't marked in any detectable fashion.
-
- Keith's solution is to mark pin 1 with an Avery "self-adhesive color
- coding label" that is about the diameter of the average pencil. These
- cost about a penny for 3 ($1.29 for 450 is the price on the box I have,
- but it's also pretty old). Tearing apart a couple of machines recently,
- I found that the yellow dots made it very obvious what went where. With
- multiple cables, I could mark one set with an "X", another with "*", and
- leave the rest plain.
-
- These look like they stick pretty well, and even if they were to fall
- onto a circuit board they shouldn't cause any problems. If you got one
- in a diskette drive, of course ...
-
- I suspect other people do something similar, but this is the first time
- I've seen it done.
-
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