Just as a guess I'd say that it might be a cable for some the disk drives
that HP made that used a fiber optic link. I've seen some of the drives but
I've never seen the cable that goes with them.
Joe
At 04:37 PM 8/6/01 +1000, you wrote:
>I've not had much luck with this on search engines. so I am trying it
>here as it must be close to being classic if not already.
>
>I am trying to identify a HP fibre optic cable assembly; P/N(?)
>1005-0078.
>
>It is described as a 30 metre fibre optic cable assembly. If was
>dumpster recovered 5 years ago and comes on a plastic drum about 13"
>across, which is labelled with the above desctiption. It was fitted with
>two dissimilar cable anchorage. Does anyone have any ideas what it
>was/is?
>
>
>
>The cable actually looks like black figure 8 electrical wire (standard
>lamp stuff), but thinner.
>
>More to the point, the fibres are terminated with a screw on fitting,
>which I have never seen listed in any catalogue. My thoughts were to try
>and find a couple of AUI to FO converters and use it as part of my SOHO
>network between the garage(lab/workshop) and office.
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