🚀 go-pugleaf

bweir@birchlea.demon.co.uk (Barclay Weir) writes:

> Mike Tomlinson <mike@jasper.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> >In article <Z7FopFA3a8U3EwEI@dbqa.demon.co.uk>, Tom Bird
> ><hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes
> 
> >>This Sun 3/110 still needs a SCSI terminator.  I think it is a DD50
> >>connector (50 pins in 3 rows, 
> >            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >*3* rows?  Are you sure?  Are you sure it's SCSI at all?
> 
> >-- 
> >Mike Tomlinson
> >See the sci.electronics.repair FAQ mirror at  
> >http://www.jasper.demon.co.uk/repairfaq/
> 
> 
> 
> Yes, older SUN equipment used this connector arrangement for SCSI.
> I think it originated with Apple Computers. In fact I'm looking at
> one right now. 
> 
> Cables and terminators using this connector were still available in 
> Black Box catalogues at the end of last year (I haven't looked at
> the current catalogue.)


I was in Maplin (the one on Oxford Street, Manchester) yesterday, and
they had SCSI-2 terminators, plus converters from SCSI-2 to
that-enormous-SCSI-connector.  The combination of the two should do
the trick.

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