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Re: weird cable

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From: Marc Brousseau
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 01:22
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In article <Jade.0s0o@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca> Jade@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca (Jade) writes:
>I have got this external 5.25 drive.  But with it I got this really weird
>cable that I haven't seen before.  It has 37 pins (or very close to that
>number) and they won't plug into any computer I have seen.  I don't know
>much about the external drive but I was wondering what it would take to get
>this hooked up to my system.  Has anyone ever run across a cable like this?

I've got an external 5.25 drive hooked up to an IBM PS2-30/286 with a cable
like that - the drive is an Translator, and the cable goes from the drive
to a plug in card on the PS2 bus; that's about all I know about it - do you
have the card?
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From: mbrousse@cs.ulowell.edu (Marc Brousseau)
Subject: Re: weird cable
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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 01:22:49 GMT
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