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bombcar 5 days ago

I’ve seen this also - I am unsure if it was a cost cutting measure or something else, but I’ve seen more than one connector with many missing pins.

II2II 5 days ago | parent [-]

The cables I saw were handmade. You can get connectors which are just the shield and an insulator with holes in the place of the pins. You crimp the pins onto the wires, then slide the pins into the insulator. You may have saved a few cents by not inserting the unconnected pins, but the reality is that most people left them out because there was no point in going to the trouble of putting them in.