Reading along with great enjoyment, until I got to the part where the author is photoshopping and editing a component diagram of the D19 to get more manufacture

Reading along with great enjoyment, until I got to the part where the author is photoshopping and editing a component diagram of the D19 to get more manufactured. I think to myself, "how strange! even if the manufacturer isn't willing to pay for the standard, it's got to be worth it for the guy who's trying to get them built!" A small bit of Wikipedia browsing followed, in which I realized that I've been laboring under a decades-long misapprehension that the D in D-sub connectors stands for DIN. Nope, just the shape, and not a DIN, or ANSI, or ISO standard. Just de facto. Note that this isn't totally insane, there are in fact DIN connectors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_connector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_connector. Just so happens that D-sub connectors have nothing to do with them. Always more to learn...