A replacement for the HP-41 zebra connector

[Hans Brueggemann]

although i very much appreciate the effort to find a solution to this ubiquituous "zebra" issue on the HP-41 series, i'm still not convinced by the kind of a makeshift approach that we take to solve it. the kapton wrap-around looks good, but all flex-ribbon ideas (cable tubing, silcone tubing,...) to "cushion" the flex-strip do lack of a material characterization, which makes it kind of va-banque when looking at the reliability.
hence, i'd suggest that we also look into something that is called Oriented Wire Shield
i've seen this stuff before on prototyping sockets(!) for microprocessors that come in a BGA package.
what do you think?