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Dongle makers: How about...
...using telephone wire to connect the dongle et. al. to the controller?
It seems like you could use that wire quite well for connections, going something like this:
Competition port -> DB15 Connector -> Phone Jack -> Phone wire -> Phone Jack -> Switches
I can see a couple of advantages to this scheme...first is adaptability. If you want to be able to stand back and spot from the side, you get a really long wire. If you want to have the dongle on your control board, you get a really short wire.
The second advantage is the reduced chance of fouling things up. If you trip on the wire or knock something off or some other Billfredesque act, the wire (or phone jack, worst case scenario) will break first. No OIs can be harmed in the making of that moment.
Thoughts?
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