Hello Bill,

On May 13 08:18 in a msg to Poe Lim, Bill Grimsley of 3:640/305.9 wrote:

PL> The older Couriers have the unusual connector, which means you had
PL> to have one of theirs.

 BG> Quite right, too.  I was dreading that positively awful mini DIN
 BG> plug thingo (ever tried repairing or rewiring one of those?), so
 BG> you can imagine how pleased I was that USR appear to have finally
 BG> woken up to themselves. 

Might have had a purpose some time in the past; AFAIK, the current Couriers
(or rather the daughterboard version) doesn't use all the pins, and only
needs two. Perhaps the older ones has different voltages for different
components.

Cheers,
Poe

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