Hmm...what the heck kind of cable is this????

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Tue Apr 24 12:41:17 2001

Couldn't be for the LPT port on a PC as it's female and the LPT is also
female. Steve's suggestion of it being a video cable is probably correct -
I'll have to see if it is 23 or 25 pin on the d-sub side.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Cameron Kaiser
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 12:15 PM
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Hmm...what the heck kind of cable is this????
>
>
> > In a batch of power adapters and cables I found a stereotypical
> Commodore
> > style beige serial type cable, having the DIN plug on the end -
> but only on
> > one end. The other end is a 25 pin female d-sub. I know it's
> factory as the
> > housing for the 25 pin has the C= emblem molded into it.
>
> The only Commodore factory cables with 25-pin DSUB connectors are
> the SX-64
> keyboard cables, and the terminal end of the C128D keyboard connector.
> However, the SX-64 keyboard cable is 25-pin on both ends, and the 128D
> keyboard connector is a part of the keyboard. I've never heard of
> any others
> that Commodore themselves manufactured.
>
> The thing that this sounds most like is a standard X1541 cable
> but Commodore
> never made those themselves. If it is, the connection is between a PC LPT
> port and the disk drive.
>
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