15 Nov
2001
15 Nov
'01
5:27 a.m.
There were at least 2 versions of Sider drives/Cards...
One was a straight ribbon cable... The other looked like a standard SCSI
cable but I don't remember if it was a real scsi interface or not...
George Rachor
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George L. Rachor Jr. george(a)rachors.com
Hillsboro, Oregon http://rachors.com
United States of America Amateur Radio : KD7DCX
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Pete Turnbull wrote:
On Nov 15, 8:33, Ernest wrote:
think
Yeah, but how wide is "wide"?
The card I have seems not to be what's required. It's intended to connect
to a Xebec card all right, but the connector is only 26-way. Thanks to
Dick Erlacher who mailed me with the details, I know the Sider needs rather
more wires (all 50, probably).
My card was made by HAL Computers Ltd in 1983, labelled "APPLE 2/3 XEBEC
INTERFACE REV 1", and the only strings I can find in the EPROM are "(C) HAL
COMPUTERS LTD 1983 A/XHAL SHARED RESOURCE WINCHESTER SYSTEM", "NOT
CONNECTED", and "SRS ERROR". If anybody knows any more about this,
I'd be
interested to hear about it, otherwise it will languish in my box of odd
cards for a day when I'm particularly bored and decide to try it out (yes,
I have a spare Xebec controller and ST412 drives).
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Pete Turnbull
> What would it look like? I assume it would have a ribbon
> connector between
> the Apple card and the Sider. Do you know how many pins? I don't the card
I have is what you want, but you never know...
It has a Xebec label on the card, and a wide rainbow ribbon cable comming
directly off the tail end of the card.