An Amiga computer video cable, to be precise.
--- Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com> wrote:
> Just recounted and it IS a 23 pin d-sub so the
> winner is Steve for his
> description that it is a video cable. Thanks
> everyone that contributed.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> > [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf
> Of John Foust
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 1:00 PM
> > To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> > Subject: RE: Hmm...what the heck kind of cable is
> this????
> >
> >
> > At 12:41 PM 4/24/01 -0500, you wrote:
> > >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.
> >
> > It could be for an Amiga parallel port, to connect
> to a 1541 disk drive.
> > The Amiga's parallel port was bidirectional
> (allowing things
> > like the DigiView to feed data into the computer)
> and several
> > companies made software and hardware to handle
> 1541s on the
> > Amiga. I don't think CBM itself ever did it,
> though...
> >
> > - John
> >
> >
>
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Received on Tue Apr 24 2001 - 13:57:10 BST