Right, so a while ago I posted a thread discussing ways to get MIDI out of my Thinkpad 365ED. No conclusions reached.

Well I was looking at it the other day and realized it has a MIDI port built in. Unfortunately this being '90s IBM it uses a proprietary mini-mini-D-sub-thing that I've never seen anywhere else.

It's the port on the upper right. Just 1cm wide! The one below it is for the external floppy drive.

There is an official gameport/MIDI port cable for this which adapts it to a standard DB15. The IBM part # is 75H7576. There are currently none on Ebay, but several creaky looking "thinkpad-parts-online!" type websites claim to have them in stock and might sell me one for $30 US. Plus another $25 for shipping (UPS only, of course) and who knows what in 'brokerage' & taxes. *IF* they even have them, and *if* they are the right cables as there are apparently different ones for different Thinkpads, and *if* they don't accidentally send me the wrong one & give me no recourse to return it when it arrives and doesn't work. Then I *might* be able to have one for approx. $75+ in my money when it finally gets here. Meh.

So naturally I'd rather build my own. Was this little connector used in anything else? Anyone have a likely source for me?