[rescue] Rescued VAX 4500 question

[Eric Dittman]

> I was given three options by the fellow I talked to there:
> 
> 1) Track down a cable, if someone has a spare.  :)
> 
> 2) Take an exacto-knife and cut the required notch into a cable.  The
>    tricky part in this is to avoid cutting myself at the same time.
> 
> 3) Attempt to break the tab off of the outlet on the VAX.  I'd hate
>    to this in case the tab serves some useful purpose.  Right now, the
>    only purpose I can think of is to force someone to go to DEC to buy
>    another cable off of them for some ridiculous price if they ever
>    needed one.
> 
> Does anyone have such a spare cable?  If not, does anyone see why option
> number 2 wouldn't work?  Is there a reason why option 3 would be bad
> to try either?

I needed such a cable last year.  I bought mine from Compaq.
The part number is 17-00083-43.  The price at the time was
$11.  Try giving what's left of Compaq a call.
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Eric Dittman
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