Sun external SMD cables

SMD external cables probably weren't that common. The systems I saw which were of such as 4/280 etc, rack mounted had the cabling internal to the bays and were of the ribbon variety. They used VME bus cards in a large size carrier for the controllers in the system frame. The system frame had cards that were about 18" high with an extra bus connector. But if you aligned the VME cars to fit two of them, there was apparently a vme bus. Those systems that i saw had either 68k processors, or early Sparc processors. The sun boards used all three bus connectors and the other vendor boards as I sad were usually mounted in a sun dimensioned carrier frame. And reason for all this explanation was that they used a third part vendor's SMD interface. As to the connections to go outside the rack, all the systems I saw had 2 or so smd drives and were racked in a 6' bay with room for a tape drive at the top, system in the center, and drives @ the bottom, and so no need for external.