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Where Can You Buy Jumpers? 54

Posted by Cliff from the in-all-their-various-shapes-and-sizes dept.
tekrat asks: "Here is a wacky question, and one I'm sure has frustrated millions of us hardware geeks. While we're moving towards jumperless motherboards, a good deal of them still require that we fiddle with jumpers to change things or when we upgrade. Or perhaps we're adding an internal SCSI drive and need to set it to a particular ID. Nevertheless, through the years, those little jumpers have come in a variety of sizes, all of them microscopic enough to easily get lost on the living room carpet. Without scavenging existing hardware, where does one go to obtain jumpers? I haven't been able to find anyone who sells them, and that makes me curious as to who even makes them for the motherboard or drive manufacturers. If anybody knows who sells a package of various-sized jumpers in a pack of 100 or 1000, please point 'em out and you will have my eternal gratitude."
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  • Buy them? (Score:1, Redundant)

    by Calle Ballz ( 238584 )
    I always just rumaged through severely decrepid and archaic computer parts and ripped the jumpers off of them. Go through your old hardware and rip the jumpers off the parts you know you'll never need.

    • Re:Buy them? (Score:2, Funny)

      by isorox ( 205688 )
      Post:
      without scavenging existing hardware, where does one go to obtain jumpers?

      Your response:
      I always just rumaged through severely decrepid and archaic computer parts and ripped the jumpers off of them.

      hmm. Read the post or just reply after the first 3 lines?
  • If you live in a world like mine, your locally owned computer store will have a whole box of jumpers, motherboard offsets, Y-adapters for power and the like. I was a good customer, so they would just let me rummage for the little bits I needed.

  • I got yer jumpers right here. (Score:4, Informative)

    by PD ( 9577 ) <slashdotlinux@pdrap.org> on Tuesday January 15, 2002 @06:13PM (#2845223) Homepage Journal
    Right at the top of the page. [allelectronics.com] It took me 15 seconds on google to find it.
  • ...of course it became way obsolete over time, and I scrapped it, except for the still-useful jumpers.
  • ... of old systems. Just get the word out amongst friends that you're looking to glom on to any and all pre-1993 computers that you can. It works, believe me.

    I've got many (working) 8088 through 80486 class machines out of it, as well. The ones that didn't work, or simply had no use to me, I tear down for components, including jumpers. From doing this, I've got two drawers full of useful expansion cards, a rack of hard drives, an armload of 32-bit x86 processors, and more jumpers than I care to count. :)

    Not to mention spare keyboards, internal cabling, power supplies, monitors, printers, and modular cases. All of which come in just as handy for me as those little jumpers.

  • Just go to the local Mom and pop computer part/repair store. They probably have 10,000 sitting in a bowl in the back

  • Computergate (Score:3, Informative)

    by arnex ( 238036 ) on Tuesday January 15, 2002 @06:17PM (#2845261)
    A penny apiece [computergate.com].

  • 7 cents (Score:3, Informative)

    by jeffy124 ( 453342 ) on Tuesday January 15, 2002 @06:18PM (#2845268) Homepage Journal
    Radio shack [radioshack.com]
  • I know for a fact that the Portland (Willsonville) Oregon Fry's has a variety of sizes of jumper. They are a good resource, if you happen to have one in your area.

    • Re:Fry's (Score:1, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      i dont know if i'd like i'm buying hardware from a company that calls themselves "Fry's"
  • SeaGate SCSI drives perhaps? They use these REALLY TINY jumpers that you practically have to use tweezers to handle. However, check your old pile of Quantum and Maxtor hard drives. Quantum Lightning and the older Maxtors (my 800MB one used them) used the two types of tiny jumpers like are used on some SeaGate SCSI drives.

    Your local mom&pop shop probably has thousands of them. I stopped by one that was oging out of business and they gave me a small box (about the size of the ice bucket in your average freezer, which is what I'm now using) full of various sized computer screws. They probably had the same thing only with jumpers :)

    --MonMotha

  • Today on Ask Slashdot: (Score:4, Flamebait)

    by DeadMeat (TM) ( 233768 ) on Tuesday January 15, 2002 @06:47PM (#2845468) Homepage
    "Ask Slashdot: What's This 'Search Engine' Thing I Keep Hearing So Much About?"

    Stay tuned for a preview of tomorrow on Ask Slashdot:

    "Ask Slashdot: Anybody Want to Do My Math Homework for Me?"
    • It's a shame more thoughtful ask slashdots get rejected 2 seconds (literally) after being submitted. Note i didn't say better.. just something not quite as obvious.

      Jumpers? Dime a dozen. literally. Hit your local radio shack.

      I preferred dip switches. To me, they seemed so much more.. logical.
    • "Ask Slashdot: What's This 'Search Engine' Thing I Keep Hearing So Much About?"
      Stay tuned for a preview of tomorrow on Ask Slashdot:
      "Ask Slashdot: Anybody Want to Do My Math Homework for Me?"

      Hey, this is right in line with yesterday's episode:
      Ask Slashdot: Don't you just HATE it when people don't quote properly in e-mail?
      I have a hard time fitting all this into "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters". Cliff is getting ever closer to joining Jamie and Katz in my blocking preferences.

      A haiku, "Dredging the Bottom"... I'm thinking of adding it to my /. sig.

      Nothing but whining
      Slashdot stretching for content
      Why is this headlined?
    • I submitted a GOOD question to Ask Slashdot the other day. Turned down flat. I wanted to know if anyone had found a 'real' CRM (Customer Relationship Manager) like Act! or GoldMine for Linux. A lot of business people (who would put Linux on their computers) don't because they are missing certain tools (like a CRM).

      Guess what I *SHOULD* have submitted to Ask Slashdot was: "Uh, I have a computer, and a keyboard came with it, but, the keyboard wouldn't fit in the keyboard holder that pops out when I push a button on the front of the computer. Keyboard it seems isn't small/round enough to fit in the circle-like indentation. How do I get it to fit?"

      Please don't mod me down.. It's funny! Really! :)
      • Ah, that's the point; you're asking about "business people", not "nerds" or "geeks". You need to aim things at the intellectual level that believes that ripping off suppliers of their intellectual property/copyright is OK and anyone who attempts to enforce IP/copyright/trademarks is eeeevil...

        Now to see how long it takes to get moderated down as "troll" or "flamebait" - since I have full karma, I don't care.

        • Continuing on this OT discussion thread...

          This is not ment to be a troll to larien's post, but I read slashdot, ocassionaly post on slashdot, but have to disagree on your buisness verses nerds or geeks comment. I work for a buisness with sales people, who use Goldmine, and at my last job ACT. There was no linux in house, but my tinker box or two that I would kill 30 minutes or so a month when I needed some "me time," at my old job. (Former job was network admin, telcom admin, and helpdesk support.) My current job, we use win2k for the notebooks just because of compatability with clients emailing atachments. I know Staroffice and KDE's Koffice are better than ever, but still. We do use linus for all of our servers, and for our custom application. We also tried linux for the laptops/sales people befor I got here, but it was a headach for the reson stated above.

          People like me would be the ones who see the need, and desire for Linux based CRM packages, and might have come across on our jobs. I unfortunalty however have not, but I will keep my eyes open for something.

          On a side note, I however ma be classified as a crack-head for the ask slashdot I submitted a while back. Can we use graphic cards' extra power as a mini-computer under linux when not playing 3D games? Took 4 months and a second submission to get it shot down.
          • It wasn't meant seriously; I posted that as a tongue in cheek comment :)

            FWIW, I work in a large oil company (it's not hard to find out which if you want to search) where we work with a range of things, although my area is Unix (with a bit of Oracle thrown in). I read Slashdot regularly and even post now and again, despite linux being rare in our company (apart from a 1024 node cluster doing seismic processing).

            Finally, good luck getting a linux CRM.

  • DigiKey (Score:4, Insightful)

    by smurd ( 48976 ) on Tuesday January 15, 2002 @06:53PM (#2845509)
    You can get:
    • .100 P/N A26228-ND for 9 cents
    • .200 P/N A26232-ND for $0.49
    • and the 2mm mircoscopic finger confusers
      2mm P/N A26244-ND for 0.26
    All Prices for 10 each
    from digikey [digikey.com]
  • Go to www.cyberguys.com they have jumpers and every little computer screw you could imagine

    I have ordered from them many times and have always gotten goo service
  • I haven't seen jumpers for sale in a lot of places, so I just collect them from old motherboards and whatnot before I toss them in the garbage. It's easy to build a collection that way.

    I have a feeling that jumpers won't be around for much longer anyways, since everything is moving towards being software-configurable (PnP and whatnot)
  • I want to find a place that sells sexy electronic components, neon-colored jumpers, clear-plastic power cables. Think Ikea, think iMac... I want it for some costumes and to decorate my Bicycle for critical mass (I have blinky lights, I have EL wire, I just need some damn sexy wires!)

    Where oh where?
  • order online from Digikey. [digikey.com]

    Assuming you want .1" jumpers:

    In the lower right hand corner of P65. [digikey.com] or in the lower left of P66 [digikey.com]

    other sizes are available too.

    Mouser [mouser.com] probally has them too.

  • These guys have really impressed me ( and I'm in an IT shop for a Fortune 500 ) startech.com [startech.com]. Based out of Canada, they carry all the stuff your never gonna find on techdata, blackbox, or ingrammicro. Odds and ends, from thubscrews to rack rigging.

    Web site leaves nothing to be desired, including visual searches for the thingamajig you have no idea what to type in a search field for.

  • You can cut & bend a staple to the appropriate size, if it's a real emergency. I wouldn't recommend this even for a short-term solution, though, unless you're really desperate.

    Most of us have equipment we can loot for jumpers (old 2x CD-ROMs, 20MB Hard Drives etc), but your best bet is really a local ma-and-pop shop and just offer $5 or so for some mismatched jumpers they've got in the back. You'll get more than you're likely to need (even if you're paying 2x retail), and you might just make a friend :)

    --dr00g
    • Actually the idea is not all that bad. I have a Swiss Knife (Victorinox Cybertool) and I use the lower end of the pliers to cut the staple and, of course, the pliers themselves to bend, position and tighten the thingy (staple-per? jumple?). I used to lose hard disk jumpers in droves, so I've had a bunch of bent staples working the position for years at a time. And the geekness factor is there too :-P
    • Probably showing my age, but for the common square posts on 0.1" centers, when I get desperate I pull out my old wirewrap supplies and wrap the necessary connections. Good solid contact, the wires are insulated so two or more "jumpers" can't short to each other, and readily removable when the time comes.
  • Computer show and Sale, travels around, comes into each area about once a month. I got little packs of them there for about a dollar for 10. Depends on the vendor I'd guess. http://www.marketpro.com/

  • All the people saying "use a search engine" in more or less civil tones, shut it !

    I'm interested in the questions that get asked here. I wouldn't have thought to ask this one, and it's nice to see the answers - if you think the answer is self evident, move along.

    Google et al will tell you a lot, but they won't tell you if the supplier is any good - that's the sort of insight that Slashdot is good at giving.

    This sort of "Use a search engine, don't ask here" is the sort of unfriendly BS that will drive new people away from any site. We all have the occasional stupid question.

    • Oh come on, this is a guy who's having trouble finding little bits of wire. How interesting is that?

      I like the narrow-interest questions too. But that's not the same thing as "I'm totally clueless, tell me what to do," questions. These belong on bbs-style sites or USENET.

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