On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Alan Pearson
<alan.pearson(a)cramer.com> wrote:
I'm looking for a DEC BC09J cable to hook up
a VS3100 to a CD drive...
That's the same cable as used with the DECstation 2100/3100. A couple
DS3100s I hauled home had a different cable, p/n BC56H-03. This one is
a few inches longer and the cable comes straight into the 50 pin
Centronics connector as opposed to the BC09J which is right angle.
Apparently the thought was to sell/bundle the 90 degree cable, to force the
purchaser to `upgrade' to the straight cable when it was necessry to plug
in more than one SCSI device. I cursed it soundly when I realized it
obstructed the pass-thru connector on the back of the TK50 I have. As all
my other SCSI toys have the HD connectors, I might have to end up getting a
50-pin centronics-like :) M-F cable to connect things.
HTH
Mike
Bob