17 Nov
2001
17 Nov
'01
9:22 a.m.
Hi,
I have a big pile of DEC BC16D-25 cable. It has one Centronics
like connector on each end. The connectors have 36 pins. I have
absolutely no clue what these cables are for. They came with
my recent VAX treck that included a VAX6000 cluster and a
DEC Server 90.
If you know what this cable is used for or if you want it,
please let me know. I have at least one or 2 dozen of those.
If nobody wants it I'll probably have to throw it out.
regards
-Gunther
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Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine
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17 Nov
17 Nov
10:06 a.m.
Believe it or not, the 36-pin "Centronics"-like connector is probably a
Centronics connector. They probably hook to a non-DEC printer, since little
else used that connector. Of course, with DEC, you never know.
Dick
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From: "Gunther Schadow" <gunther(a)aurora.regenstrief.org>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>rg>; <port-vax(a)netbsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 4:22 PM
Subject: BC16D-25 cable, what's that?
Hi,
I have a big pile of DEC BC16D-25 cable. It has one Centronics
like connector on each end. The connectors have 36 pins. I have
absolutely no clue what these cables are for. They came with
my recent VAX treck that included a VAX6000 cluster and a
DEC Server 90.
If you know what this cable is used for or if you want it,
please let me know. I have at least one or 2 dozen of those.
If nobody wants it I'll probably have to throw it out.
regards
-Gunther
--
Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org
Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine
tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org
12:02 p.m.
I have a big pile of DEC BC16D-25 cable...
If you know what this cable is used for...
I have a BC16C-25. It goes to a H3104 8 serial port
connection block for MMJ (RS232).
I have at least one or 2 dozen of those.
-25 means feet, doesn't it? That sure is a lot of copper.
John A.
18 Nov
18 Nov
5:09 a.m.
At 06:22 PM 11/17/01 -0500, Gunther Schadow wrote:
I have a big pile of DEC BC16D-25 cable. ...
If you know what this cable is used for or if you want it,
please let me know.
Hi Gunthar,
These cables are used to connect a CXA16 and some other 8 port DEC cards
(the time share card for the VAXServer come to mind) to something called a
"harmonica block" this is a box that has one of those centronics connectors
on it on one side and 8 MMJ ports on the other.
Currently NetBSD does not support the CXA16 but VMS does and I've got one
as my multiuser demo system.
The cables come in a couple of flavors, in one, one of the centronics has a
right angle configuration to allow it to be used with a BA213 with the door
on. In another both ends are right angles. I've not seen one that was
straight on both ends but DEC made a _lot_ of different cables.
Did you get a pile of harmonica blocks with the cables?
--Chuck
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