olearypj at rte.ie wrote:
> Have any of you gurus ever made up a cable to bring out the internal
> connector of an adaptec 2940u to the back of a pc, or know where I would get
> such an item. I need an old scsi 1 connector on the back to connect to an old
> scanner, it seems impossible to get a pci scsi card with this connector.
25-pin D-type or 50 way Centronics? Presume it's ordinary 50 way 0.1"
pitch IDC connector on the 2940...?
> Any help or suggestions appreciated,
You could try disembowelling an old Macintosh. Some of the late CISC /
early PowerPC ones had a case-mounted 25-pin D on a ribbon cable plugged
onto the motherboard (or 'logic board' in Apple parlance of course...)
cjb
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