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 ----- Original Message ----- 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?

At 06:22 PM 11/17/01 -0500, Gunther Schadow wrote: 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