At 12:41 PM 4/24/01 -0500, you wrote:
Couldn't be for the LPT port on a PC as it's
female and the LPT is also
female. Steve's suggestion of it being a video cable is probably correct -
I'll have to see if it is 23 or 25 pin on the d-sub side.
It could be for an Amiga parallel port, to connect to a 1541 disk drive.
The Amiga's parallel port was bidirectional (allowing things
like the DigiView to feed data into the computer) and several
companies made software and hardware to handle 1541s on the
Amiga. I don't think CBM itself ever did it, though...
- John