04-19-2004, 10:52 PM
Hi,
No. And the technical terms are all screwed up :)
The pins were originally nothing more than jumper type pins on 0.1 inch spacing (standard spacing for most DIPP chips). Two rows of these side by side made a "header". Then someone came up with a connector for those. And a ribbon cable which could just be crimped into the connector. The "socket" is a separate piece of plastic that goes around the whole mess, and that many manufacturers (and almost all hobbyists) leave off.
The whole mess is sorta jury rigged -- never planned but it happened anyway and we're stuck with it. Much like the dancing bear, the amazing thing isn't how well it works, but that it works at all :)
--Pete
No. And the technical terms are all screwed up :)
The pins were originally nothing more than jumper type pins on 0.1 inch spacing (standard spacing for most DIPP chips). Two rows of these side by side made a "header". Then someone came up with a connector for those. And a ribbon cable which could just be crimped into the connector. The "socket" is a separate piece of plastic that goes around the whole mess, and that many manufacturers (and almost all hobbyists) leave off.
The whole mess is sorta jury rigged -- never planned but it happened anyway and we're stuck with it. Much like the dancing bear, the amazing thing isn't how well it works, but that it works at all :)
--Pete
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