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Phaelax
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Posted: 7th May 2007 23:53
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During an interview last week I was given several pictures to indentify. There was a 4-ping DIN that I still can't figure out what it was. I believe S-video has 4 pins, but is much smaller than the image appeared to be. I asked if the scale between was accurate and she said yes. The plug shown was more about the size of the old keyboard 5 din. Any thoughts?


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Posted: 8th May 2007 00:16
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Could it be an XLR (microphone) plug? I was going to say a midi plug too but those might have more than 4 pins.
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Posted: 8th May 2007 04:35 Edited at: 8th May 2007 04:36
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http://www.worldofcables.com/oscatalog/CreateHTMLPagesItem/AUD-2000-06.htm
Hmmmm

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Phaelax
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Posted: 8th May 2007 19:46
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midi has 5 pins, i have them on my computer. s-video seems to be the only thing that fits but the picture made it look too large.
I guess I wasn't the only person who missed it (or they didn't really care too much), 'cause I got a second interview this week.


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Posted: 8th May 2007 20:38 Edited at: 8th May 2007 21:00
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Could have been an Apple mouse/keyboard or an Apple talk network connector I suppose?

Or if it was really big an old tape machines had a big din plug, I think video recorders had them too. Talking about 1980s and tape to tape copying era. Mybe they were testing how old you were Ah the good old days when networks used BNC connectors and terminators!



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Posted: 9th May 2007 00:32
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I just vaguely remember having to use terminators. I just had to buy a bnc cable the other day for an old video camera.


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