3 Jan
2020
3 Jan
'20
8:38 p.m.
Does anyone have a spare internal or external SCSI cable for the IBM RS/6000 Model 320
with the IBM MCA SCSI-1 card (3-1)? For those who don?t know/remember, this card uses a
pair of edge connectors (like MFM/ESDI) rather than an IDC connector to connect to its
internal two-drop cable, and its external connector is a **sixty-pin** higher-density
Centronics connector.
I can make an IDC cable adapter pretty easily but if anyone knows where to acquire working
original cables, that?d be preferable to my relative lack of mechanical skill.
-- Chris
3 Jan
3 Jan
10:31 p.m.
On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 8:39 PM Chris Hanson via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Does anyone have a spare internal or external SCSI cable for the IBM RS/6000 Model 320
with the IBM MCA SCSI-1 card (3-1)? For those who don?t know/remember, this card uses a
pair of edge connectors (like MFM/ESDI) rather than an IDC connector to connect to its
internal two-drop cable, and its external connector is a **sixty-pin** higher-density
Centronics connector.
I had (2x) 7012-320 20MHz and (1x) 7012-320H 25MHz desktop systems
over 10 years ago that I couldn't give away locally. I ended up taking
them to a local PC recycler.
I don't have any internal SCSI cables left from those systems. I do
still have a 70F9733 5-foot external SCSI cable that has the weird
60-pin connector on the system end, and the weird pass-thru normal
50-pin connector on the device end. I haven't had any use for that
70F9733 SCSI cable since I got rid of those systems.
The device end is weird because it could plug into the deep recessed
connector on the external SCSI tape or CD-ROM drive, which only had a
single connector, and then either a terminator or another cable could
be chained onto the second pass-thru connector on the cable device end
plug.
4 Jan
4 Jan
12:52 p.m.
On Jan 3, 2020, at 10:31 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
?I don't have any internal SCSI cables left from those systems. I do
still have a 70F9733 5-foot external SCSI cable that has the weird
60-pin connector on the system end, and the weird pass-thru normal
50-pin connector on the device end. I haven't had any use for that
70F9733 SCSI cable since I got rid of those systems.
The device end is weird because it could plug into the deep recessed
connector on the external SCSI tape or CD-ROM drive, which only had a
single connector, and then either a terminator or another cable could
be chained onto the second pass-thru connector on the cable device end
plug.
That sounds like exactly what I need! Would you be willing to part with it? For how much?
:)
? Chris (in Campbell, CA, USA)
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