The only reason I thought it might matter is bandwidth. Though I couldn't imagine that a decent cable would lack the necessary bandwidth, I didn't want to spend a week fussing and tinkering only to find that I'd effectively used phone cord when what I really needed was jumper cables, so to speak.

What we need in this world are some more really fancy connectors. I say make 'em like current keyboard and mouse connectors, with little bitty pins that have to be lined up perfectly, housed in a round connector that's nearly always on the back of a component that already has 80 connectors jammed into a 2x5 inch rectangle. I just haven't spent enough of my life with my hand twisted around backwards, turning and turning a connector as I search for that sweet spot, desperately trying to manipulate the thing among a horizontal cityscape of connectors I fought in previous battles. And while we're at it, let's add in some of those nifty thumbscrew things from D-style connectors that never quite line up with the holes, and when they do, they spin the "screw hole in a screw" until it rolls right out of the board I'm supposed to be connecting to.

Yep. That's what we need. More connectors.

:)

Dale