Welcome to pfranc.com
Home of the Purple Open
Projects
& ShareHardWare(tm).
[Find my Pfranc]
We support Garmin GPS products with plugs and cables - since 1996.
Plugs
We distribute three types of connectors via our Plugs-For-A-Pledge ShareHardware system!
- pPlug,
our "classic" - 1/2" diameter, 4 or 5 pins, for most Garmin models including: 12, 12XL, 38, 40, 45,
48, 60, 60C, 60CS, 60CSx, 72, 76, 76C, 76CS, 76CSx, 89, 90, 92, 96, 176, 196, 295,
GPS II, II+, III, III+, V, most Street Pilots, and more!
- ePlug and e2plug -
Connectors for Garmin eTrex, eMap, Geko.
- rPlug, for Garmin Rino models.
Cables
Ready-made cables for Garmin GPS, and more ... over 30 types:
- Power cables
- Data cables
- Combo cables: Power and data
- Bluetooth adapter for almost all Garmin GPS!
- Cigarette lighter cables
- NEW: Mini-USB cable, ultra-lightweight! Check it out!
- PC interface cables
- Mac interface cables
- Power supplies for 3-V and 8-V Garmin GPS
- USB connectors
- USB to serial converters
New Stuff!
NEW: Mini-USB cable, ultra-lightweight!
Pfranc of the month
Pfranc of the month! (June 2009): --
(Checkout Pfranc Bruces Le Petit Hotel - a new NZ French B & B. )
The Company
Purple Computing
P.O.Box 100
Murphy, OR. 97533
USA
- Name : Purple Computing.
- Started: 1983.
- EIN: (Federal Tax ID): 770029058
- Visa/MC Merchant since: 1984.
- Owner: Larry Berg
- Employees: 3 ... Ardel, Richard, and Larry.
- Pfrancs: 60+ located in 50+ countries.
- E-mail:
- See Larrys Cool Projects:
homemade gas turbine jet engine, funicular, turboprop amphibious ultralight, and more!
- The temperature under a 25 watt lamp in my office is: (updated every 10 seconds).
Click here to switch the:
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This is made possible by the amazing ioBridge.com
. On 4/20/09 I created a "action" (at ioBridge.com) that turns off my lamp when the temp reaches about 200 deg. F (raw analogue input 940).

Ted Goff (back in 1996) said I can display his Cartoon-Of-The-Day
from Mostly Business here - for free!