On Tue, 07 Apr 2015 18:35:06 -0700 Jeff Liebermann
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On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 13:26:18 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd
wrote:

On Tuesday, April 7, 2015 at 10:57:47 AM UTC-7, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Tue, 07 Apr 2015 13:34:22 +0000, wrote:

WHY GENDER CHANGER WON'T WORK:

I thought about a gender changer until I noticed that the "key"
(blank spot, no pin connector) position was not in the center.

What I've done in the distant past was find a 44 pin header like this:
http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/cablesonline_2268_133639889
and just cram it into one of the connectors. If there's a keying pin,
I just remove it from the header.

I think the point here, is that the header is now a mirror image of the
mating connector that is required. There has to be an inversion of the
sense of the connector, i.e. the header has to stick through the back of the
connector before engaging the female sockets, or it isn't a compatible
mate to the cable in the extension-cable sense.

Sure, but the header in the above URL, before a keying pin is removed,
is symmetrical and will both fit in any derangement. If a keying pin
is needed, just extract the pin from the header. The header shown is
simply crammed into a common F-F ribbon cable, turning it into an
extension cable.

I've done this successfully a few times when I needed an HD or FD
extension cable in an old monster tower case where the typical PC
ribbon cables are usually too short. The only headache was that the
header pins were slightly short, so I had to move the black plastic
base to the approximate middle of the pins.

Gotta call BS on this. That will connect pin 1 of the first cable to pin 2
of the connecting cable. Don't see how that could ever work.