If so, he needs to start with Gottlieb interconnect harnesses. They go for over $100 these days for about 3ft of wire, a plastic housing, and 40 or so crimps. He'd make a killing. If he can find the housings.

Talk to Steve Young about the GTB wires.

A: To make sure he's OK with it.
B: To see if maybe he'd want to be a bulk buyer.

My understanding is that GTB bought truckloads of blank white wire and ran it through a house-built wire striping machine to make whatever colors they needed. This eliminated warehousing (no need to store hundreds of colors) and they could just make whatever color they needed for the run they were producing.

Being that it was a house-built machine, they may have a patent on it, and therefore Steve would be the holder said patent.

Better to ask him than to be served with a cease and desist letter from his attorneys.

Or the 2 color-1 color identification system.

I may have missed it, but how is the wire packaged? Is it on a reel, or just a neatly bundled coil of wire?

rockwell I'd love to see some pics of your shop/warehouse.
I'm always interesting in seeing how other people organize mass quantities of "stuff" to give me better ideas of how to organize all my stuff.

Correct. You wouldn't want a single 4o-pin connector in there anyway. Too much stress on the board. You'd have 39 cold solder joints sooner or later.
Add on manufacturing costs and the price goes up quickly.

I totally get why they choose 4 10pin instead.

Makes it easier to repair too, now that I think of it.