Where Can You Buy Jumpers? 54
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."
Buy them? (Score:1, Redundant)
Re:Buy them? (Score:2, Funny)
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?
Re:Buy them? (Score:1)
Re:Buy them? (Score:1)
Where to Buy. (Score:1)
I got yer jumpers right here. (Score:4, Informative)
Re:15 Seconds? (Score:1)
I once bought thousands of $$$ of hardware... (Score:2)
Re:I once bought thousands of $$$ of hardware... (Score:2)
Re:I once bought thousands of $$$ of hardware... (Score:2)
Start a small collection... (Score:1)
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.
store (Score:2)
Computergate (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Computergate (Score:1)
Re:Computergate (Score:1)
$0.99 is actually the price per unit. In this case, a unit is a bag of 100 jumpers.
Re:Computergate (Score:1)
7 cents (Score:3, Informative)
Re:7 cents (Score:2)
Oops.
Internal error. Please contact allcorp@allcorp.com
Fry's (Score:1)
Re:Fry's (Score:1, Funny)
You mean those microscopic things... (Score:1)
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)
Stay tuned for a preview of tomorrow on Ask Slashdot:
Re:Today on Ask Slashdot: (Score:3, Informative)
Jumpers? Dime a dozen. literally. Hit your local radio shack.
I preferred dip switches. To me, they seemed so much more.. logical.
Re:Today on Ask Slashdot: (Score:1, Offtopic)
Hey, this is right in line with yesterday's episode: 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
Nothing but whining
Slashdot stretching for content
Why is this headlined?
Re:Today on Ask Slashdot: (Score:1)
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!
Re:Today on Ask Slashdot: (Score:2)
Now to see how long it takes to get moderated down as "troll" or "flamebait" - since I have full karma, I don't care.
Re:Today on Ask Slashdot: (Score:1)
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.
Re:Today on Ask Slashdot: (Score:1)
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)
2mm P/N A26244-ND for 0.26
from digikey [digikey.com]
Where to buy Jumpers (Score:2, Informative)
I have ordered from them many times and have always gotten goo service
Re:Where to buy Jumpers (Score:2, Funny)
Scavenging... (Score:1)
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)
how about sexy electronic components... (Score:1)
Where oh where?
digikey (Score:1)
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.
startech.com (Score:1)
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.
In a pinch... (Score:1)
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
Re:In a pinch... (Score:1)
Re:In a pinch... (Score:2)
Computer show and Sale (Score:1)
Justification (Score:1)
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.
No justification (Score:2)
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.