HISTORY:
You might think, hell! it's just a PC cable but no .... it is a "slice of time" in the world of technology! It can be VERY difficult finding SCSI related devices and cables these days as they have largely been replaced by SATA and SAS
Sit back and let me tell you all about the history of this SCSI internal interconnect cable!
I ran an audio post production facility for 25 years and along the way we created solutions to our clients problems. Some were related to audio production and others pure IT data transfer facilities.
We are talking the late 1990's ~ early 2000's, it was a very different world in those days - Windows 98, XP & Server 2003 were the Microsoft platforms used, alongside Apple gear.
Actually my personal technical history goes a lot further back in time, in the 1980's remember S100 buss industrial machines (some were made here in Seven Hills, Sydney), PDP-11's, VAX servers from Digital Equipment Corporation, 8 Inch Floppy Drives (those were REALLY FLOPPY! and 5.25" had not been released yet!), DOS in it's many, many variants (not only Microsoft produced "DOS"), the Basic programming language and who could forget Windows 2.0/2.11/3.0/3.1 (Urghhhh)
Motherboards sported ISA buss slots with perhaps some of the "new" ubeaut PCI stuff if you could afford it. Most interfacing to peripherals such as hard drives was via IDE but other devices used SCSI interfaces e.g hard drives for faster throughput.
This cable is for the original "low throughput" SCSI devices such as CD drives (our Plex Drive listed separately used this cable)
The big STEEL cased cabinet you see pictured was originally a custom made CD duplication machine imported from Trace Duplication (USA). We upgraded that box to a wonderful (most of the time) fully automatic CD media 6 arm robotic machine which was a wonder to behold, while it worked correctly! Sometimes it would lose track of what it was doing and would pickup CDr media for writing and then the robot would start throwing the CDr's around the room like frisbies! Funny (the joke was that the machine was having some "down time", playing frisbies instead of working) but serious at the same time, that was clients music flying all around the duplication room!
Over time, the large PC unit had a myriad of extra SCSI peripherals connected to it so that we could easily take data from many different sources for straight transfer to other media or conversion and even some copy protected decryption at times. That is why you can see various CD drives and the ZIP drive in the front and other external DLT and assorted tape drives would "hang off" the SCSI buss accessed from the rear of the unit.
My wordee this is now VERY OLD technology and I see no point in keeping this unit complete so I am parting out the various components that may be of interest to others - not generally for the home computer user but some specialised industrial machines still use the SCSI architecture.
To see the other SCSI items (and I am adding more each day when possible), click HERE
So, after that long introduction, let's get down to describing this component ....
UNIDENTIFIED MANUFACTURER - Multi-port Internal SCSI Interface Cable
Cable sheath has printed on it
KUNG FU ELECTRONICS
That would have to be Chinese origin I would think!
50 pin IDC female connectors at every port
Flat cable between each port
Primary port connectors to your SCSI interface card (I have a 29160 which handles standard SCSI and SCSI-Wide on the same card listed separately)
Peripheral ports, of which there are 6, which are used to connect to each SCSI device
In summary, this cable has 7 ports, 1 going to the SCSI card and the remaining ports for use with peripheral devices
NO terminators are supplied
DIMENSIONS:
Cable total length is 120cm end to end
Primary port (plugs into the card) to the 1st peripheral port: 48cm
Each subsequent peripheral port is 15cm distant from the next port
CONDITION:
USED
CLEAN
Known to be fully functional prior to removal from the machine described above (you can see the cable "in-situ" in one of the photographs)
The cable has a clean sheath
The sheath is unmarked/no knicks or other nasties
All connectors are clean and "ready to go"
Now that I have completed this description and taken a photograph, this cable has been neatly folded and is sealed in a clear plastic packet to protect it
