Cable Questions

[weirdami]

I have some cables that I'm trying to identify. Here's the first one:

One end has this configuration. o = pin, x = no pin

\o o o o o/
\ o x o o/

(8 pins total, its like a C=64 joystick port with one pin missing)

the other end is round, like what would go into the A1000 "TV MOD" port, but the pins are too fat so it doesn't fit. Both ends are male.

Does this sort of cable have a common name? What's it good for?

[Floid]

This sounds suspiciously Atari or Tandy-oriented, and familiar somehow.  Is the mysterious connector a standard DIN?  (Round, pins arrayed around the edge?)

Alternatively, it might be an odd monitor hookup, something MIDI-related, or who-knows-what else.

[weirdami]

On the round end there are 7 pins in almost a full circle with 1 pin inside the almost circle.

[Ilwrath]

Sounds like a monitor cable to me.  My guess might be C64/128 -> color monitor.  (The 7/1 circle-DIN was used on Commodore video output, and the DB9 was the input on many monitors.)

[Floid]

Ilwrath wrote:
Sounds like a monitor cable to me.  My guess might be C64/128 -> color monitor.  (The 7/1 circle-DIN was used on Commodore video output, and the DB9 was the input on many monitors.)

Yeah.. or conversely, since it's got the center pin, perhaps for C128 digital? RGB -> a 1084?

I forget the gender of those connectors.  The 128 had a DB9 and I seem to remember the 1084 had a DIN on it somewhere.