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Keith Lofstrom showed me a neat idea: mark pin 1 with a yellow (or
orange or red or whatever) dot.  The problem with changing some PC
hardware around is that it's not obvious which pin is pin 1.  Some are
numbered, some have a square pin instead of the usual round pin, but 
many aren't marked in any detectable fashion.

Keith's solution is to mark pin 1 with an Avery "self-adhesive color
coding label" that is about the diameter of the average pencil.  These
cost about a penny for 3 ($1.29 for 450 is the price on the box I have,
but it's also pretty old).  Tearing apart a couple of machines recently, 
I found that the yellow dots made it very obvious what went where.  With 
multiple cables, I could mark one set with an "X", another with "*", and 
leave the rest plain.

These look like they stick pretty well, and even if they were to fall 
onto a circuit board they shouldn't cause any problems.  If you got one
in a diskette drive, of course ...

I suspect other people do something similar, but this is the first time 
I've seen it done.  

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