non-SCSI disks on a SCSI disk interface (was Re: Space, the next frontier)

From: Frank McConnell <fmc_at_reanimators.org>
Date: Wed May 26 20:39:03 1999

ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
> Yes, but have you seen the price of IDC DD50 plugs? Last time I needed
> some, the standard 'Amphenol' 50 pin plugs (like overgrown Centronics
> plugs) were a couple of pounds a time, but the DD50s were \pounds 17.00
> or so...

Ouch! I've paid US$11.00 or so each (at Halted, in 1993), and
didn't grumble too much because at that price it still beat the hassle
of splitting a 50-wire flat cable to make it fit a solder-tail
connector.

-Frank McConnell
Received on Wed May 26 1999 - 20:39:03 BST