[SunRescue] Why would you need something like this?

Chad Fernandez rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon Apr 30 20:34:15 CDT 2001


I am in the process of making a 50 pin scsi cable out of that stuff.  I
still need the external connector, However.  It's going to link the
Adaptec SCSI on the MB to an external port on my 486 server.

Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA

"Greg A. Woods" wrote:
> I used to have a set of 25' SMD cables that were rainbow-coloured ribbon
> cable, but with twists except for every two or three feet where it was
> flat so you could attach another connector.
> 
> Of course the SMD designers were sane and used differential signalling
> too (they had to -- the disks were sometimes so big you often needed to
> attach a disk on the other side of the room because the space in between
> was taken up by more disks!).  I still have a couple of SMD drives out
> in the garage, and somewhere an SMD controller for my PDP-11/34 too.



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