There were at least 2 versions of Sider drives/Cards...
One was a straight ribbon cable... The other looked like a standard SCSI
cable but I don't remember if it was a real scsi interface or not...
George Rachor
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George L. Rachor Jr. george_at_rachors.com
Hillsboro, Oregon
http://rachors.com
United States of America Amateur Radio : KD7DCX
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> On Nov 15, 8:33, Ernest wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> > > [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Pete Turnbull
> >
> > > What would it look like? I assume it would have a ribbon
> > > connector between
> > > the Apple card and the Sider. Do you know how many pins? I don't
> think
> > > the card I have is what you want, but you never know...
> >
> > It has a Xebec label on the card, and a wide rainbow ribbon cable comming
> > directly off the tail end of the card.
>
> Yeah, but how wide is "wide"?
>
> The card I have seems not to be what's required. It's intended to connect
> to a Xebec card all right, but the connector is only 26-way. Thanks to
> Dick Erlacher who mailed me with the details, I know the Sider needs rather
> more wires (all 50, probably).
>
> My card was made by HAL Computers Ltd in 1983, labelled "APPLE 2/3 XEBEC
> INTERFACE REV 1", and the only strings I can find in the EPROM are "(C) HAL
> COMPUTERS LTD 1983 A/XHAL SHARED RESOURCE WINCHESTER SYSTEM", "NOT
> CONNECTED", and "SRS ERROR". If anybody knows any more about this, I'd be
> interested to hear about it, otherwise it will languish in my box of odd
> cards for a day when I'm particularly bored and decide to try it out (yes,
> I have a spare Xebec controller and ST412 drives).
>
> --
> Pete Peter Turnbull
> Network Manager
> University of York
>
Received on Thu Nov 15 2001 - 13:27:39 GMT