1 Feb
2002
1 Feb
'02
12:14 p.m.
I've got a couple of cables with the heads broken off the strain relief
screws. I guess one of these days I'll have to replicate them.. Would you do
that in stainless or in (after=the-fact) blued 4320, Tony?
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Duell" <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: GPIB cables (was Re: Screwed Again! Property dispo stuff...)
There are 2 types of Commodore GPIB cable. The PETs didn't have the
conventional 24 pin Blue Ribbon connector, they had a card edge (OK, the
8032SK is the exception, it does have the Blue Ribbon connector). The
peripherals all have the Blue Ribbon connector.
So you need a specical cable -- edge connector to Blue Ribbon male/female
thingy to link the first peripheral to the PET. And then conventional
GPIB cables (Blue Ribbon male/femaly thingies on each end) to link the
other peripherals up.
The 'conventional GPIB' cables are AFAIK still being made. I still see
new test equipment with that interface, so I assume somebody is still
making cables for it.
The special 'first cable' is not that easy to find. I needed one for my
P500, and I ended up having to make an adapter with an edge connector on
one end and a 24 pin Blue Ribbon socket [1] on the other. I can then link
normal GPIB cables up to that.
[1] Have you tried getting the screwdown posts for GPIB sockets? Nobody
seems to sell them. After a lot of looking, I ended up buyingf some
stainless steel rod and an M3.5 tap....
-tony
Well, a very kind soul has informed me that this cable
is a quasi
rare item used to connect peripherals to Commodore PET systems, and
apparently that they are worth a bit of money ($50-80).
I would dispute the quasi-rare label. You can still buy as many as