3 Jan
2014
3 Jan
'14
5:03 p.m.
On Jan 3, 2014, at 16:03 , Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
Most folks who collect DEC equipment have a few of the
40-pin shielded
cables. They were used with so many devices. If you don't have one
spare, those shouldn't be expensive to find and try out.
Speaking of cables, I'm going to need to make a pair of 50 conductor ribbon cables to
connect my Kennedy 9610 drive to my PDP-11/44. It uses the common Pertec interface, and
the cables will need to be many feet long to allow the tape drive or PDP-11/44 to slide
out of the rack. The original cables were shielded, and the tape drive manual says that
was for EMI compliance. I wonder if I will be able to get away with unshielded cables,
since new 50-conductor shielded ribbon cable isn't cheap.
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/