10 Jan
2012
10 Jan
'12
10:43 p.m.
I just tripped over an unusual cable:
It has a trapezoidal thin black box labeled "TRS0-80", but no part number,
one side has a few inches of cable with a 40 pin card edge connector,
the other side has a few feet of cable with a 50 pin edge connector.
40 pin was probably model 1 expansion bus (I hafn'y messed with model
2/12/16). But what did Radio Shack use on model 1 with 50 pin?
Is this a genuine Radio Shack part or a 3rd party thing?
If it is Radio Shack, I can think of 2 possibilities :
1) The Model 3 expansion bus was 50 pins. I seem to remember there was an
adapter to use certain hardware dvices for the M3 on the M1
2) Whether this is the same as (1) I don't rememeber, but I seem to
rememebr a product consistng of LDOS and an adapter cable to sue the M3
hard disk units on the M1.
Is there any electroncis inside? Or can't it be openeed?
-tony