Re: weird cable

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From: Tomi H Engdahl
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 10:18

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'EIn 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?

It is the standard PC/XT external floppy drive connector. It has all
the disk drive signal and the power leads to the external drive. The
data sheet I have does not list the power leads, but when I opened
one drive I saw that it got power through that cable. 
The signals are quite in the same way as in original disk drive, though
the numbering is different.

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From: then@snakemail.hut.fi (Tomi  H Engdahl)
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Subject: Re: weird cable
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