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- Subject: Re: SCSI 50pin to DB25 ??
- Date: 7 Feb 96 11:40:45 MST
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
- Message-ID: <1996Feb7.114045@apsicc.aps.edu>
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- >>>50-pin SCSI to external DB25 ?
- >> All pins numbered from 26-50 are GROUND and can be (essentially) ignored.
- >> Pins 1-25 are the same for DB25 and 50pin internal cable.
- > Well, according to the ISO standard I have in front of me, for the
- > single ended connector using that is erroneously called a 50-pin
- ........
- > Centronics (it is really an Amphenol "57" series), contacts 1-12, 14-25
- ^^^^^ 50-pin Centronics isn't the internal 50-pin connector for scsi
- the above was a large printer connector from "wayback" and looks like
- your regular peecee printer end of the paralell cable on steroids.
- > are ground, also contacts 35-37, 39-40, 43. The standard of course
- > doesn't tell me what contacts of a DB25 that Apple chose to connect to
- Apple has been following a "different drummer" for most of it's life, if
- only to obscure things ( and to keep profits up too)
-