Neomys Sapiens,
BTW, what do you need all this stuff for?
Well I confessed it on my introduction and there is no denying it: I'm obsessed with adaptors!
This does not only make me throw horrendous sums at the known suppliers, but it also makes me hunt for the missing exotic dingsbums-to-whatever AND any related information.
Of course, it has a serious professional backgroud, as I have often been tasked with interface and system testing, re-engineering and getting things to work together that were never intended to do so. Having a well filled and sorted adaptor chest helps much to achieve this, especially when a demanding environment and critical signals are involved. Especially RF does not work in any other way but by providing good interconnections, and when you are doing this on a vehicle or under other detrimental influences, improvisation is not the best of choices.
For the regular (western) stuff, I had data like the complete MIL-docs and the manufacturers catalogues.
A hint: no one should assume Pasternack's 'Connector/Adaptor Identifier' booklet to be even close to complete.
I already have covered some of this Soviet stuff, but there is much to do, as I know now.
And I still harbour the intention to compile some of this information sometimes: either as a specialised publication centered on connectors and interfaces (Pinouts, adaptors etc.) or within a broader reference tome. Including, for example, the pinouts of ALL telephone-type connectors internationally. It started at a time, when there was no such info on the internet and a friend of mine called me in the small hours of the night to find out how to connect to a telephone outlet somewhere in former Yugoslavia.
This can lead to interesting discoveries: I had a sales-cum-application visit from Radiall in my office recently and used the occasion to inquire about a certain adaptor (oviously Radiall complete with Rnnnnnn-number, BNC-to-x, where x is akin to UHF, but about 1.5 times the size with much finer teeth) and I got as answer: What? we made that?
So it boils down to: If I can connect to it, I can measure it. If I can measure it, I can assess it. and so on until mission complete.