On Thu, 27 Nov 2014, Maynard A. Philbrook Jr. wrote:

In article , says...

On 27/11/2014 04:28, Peter Easthope wrote:
A photo of the unusual RS232C connector on Tatung tablet, TWN-5213 CU, is here.

http://carnot.yi.org/TatungTWN5213RS232.png

The smallest increment on the steel rule is 1 mm. The connector is essentially a socket about 20 mm x 4 mm. Centered in that is a plastic blade with 8 contacts on each side. Adjacent contacts are about 1.6 mm apart. The round hole on the left is the CPU reset.

Can anyone ID this connector? I've never seen another and haven't found it in Google Images.

Thanks, ... Peter E.


Assuming more than curiosity
Are the contacts sprung? If so then I made up something similar,
outragiously expensive proprietary otherwise, from some scrap PC-slot
card edge fingers, of right spacing. Then appropriate packing as a bit
too thin as they stood and some empty surround from a regular connector.
When you know all the contacts are good and the surround fits
registered, glue the lot together

The more I think about it, being a tablet and all, I would bet that
it's the connector for the docking station.

I was certainly going to say "how do you know it's RS232?".

My netbook from five years ago didnt' have a serial port (or parallel), I
haven't noticed any tablets that mention having a serial port. I don't
see the point, they'd be used with USB devices, while a serial port would
only be useful if you had older equipment. I'd still want a serial port
on any computer I got, but I'm not "normal".

So yes, it likely a connector for something else, rather than some odd
connector for RS232.

Michael