Re: My Apple IIGS is back

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

limtc wrote:
> Since I am not a Mac person then (I am now), I am not sure what's a
> Mac SCSI cable.
> 
> But here's the back of my external SCSI drive:
> 
> http://retromaccast.ning.com/photo/photo/show?id=1672786%3APhoto%3A19020
> 
> What do you think?

Yep, that's a 50-pin Amphenol Blue Ribbon connector--the old
standard for SCSI.

I would expect that lots of Apple shops would have old SCSI
cables around--with DB25 on one end and your drive connector
on the other.

BTW, the pass-through connector makes me wonder if the drive
has internal termination.  If it doesn't, you'll also need a
SCSI terminator--something else that a Mac shop would be likely
to have in their junk bin.

> On 4锟斤拷20锟斤拷, 锟斤拷锟斤拷2时55锟斤拷, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>That's just what is commonly known as a "Mac SCSI cable" isn't it?
>>
>>DB25 on RAMFast end and 50-pin Blue Ribbon connector (sometimes
>>called "Centronics-style) on the drive end?  Or perhaps your
>>drive has a different connector?

-michael

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