This is my first note published on Listed using Standard Notes. ...

A friend recently gave me a NeXTstation (c. 1991) that he didn't want to take with him on his move across the country. In the decade since the computer was last used, he misplaced the DB-19 display cable. These cables are very hard to come by two decades after the machine was end-of-lifed, so I made my own. (The NeXT computers that supported color used standard DB13W3 cables.) I took photos of the build process and posted them on Flickr. Starting with two DB-25 Male D-Sub connectors (RadioShack...