Henry S. Courbis wrote:
Hello.Yes, my apple SCSI rev C and Apple high speed SCSI have cables firmly attached: that could be annoying in the evenience of cable damage.Exactly! I've had to replace a few of those. When I do so I always add a Box Header so the SCSI Cable can be removed/replaced at will. Stupid that they soldered it to the board.
But if you think about it, a SCSI card is most likely to stay put and have its connector firmly attached to the backplate. Of the thousands manufactured, if only a few ever had cables damaged, then it would have been silly to add another connector (and its issues) to cover very few actual replacements. This is a very similar argument to the one for soldering ICs to the board instead of socketing. Everything in engineering is a tradeoff... -michael AppleCrate: An Apple II "blade server"! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."