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From: michael@xanadu.com (Michael McClary)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Wanted: SPARCstation SCSI cable source
Keywords: SPARCstation, cable, CHAMP connector
Message-ID: <1990Apr9.013447.25543@xanadu.com>
Date: 9 Apr 90 01:34:47 GMT
References: <13463@cgl.ucsf.EDU>
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Organization: Xanadu Operating Company, Palo Alto, CA
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In article <13463@cgl.ucsf.EDU> mday@picasso.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Mark Day) writes:
>
>I need a cable to connect a Sun SPARCstation 1 to a Sony Magneto Optical 
>Drive.  We would like to have the capability of sharing this drive between 
>our Macs and SPARCstations, but I am having trouble finding the correct
>cable for the SPARCstation end of things. 
> 
>The drive itself has the AMP CHAMP "centronics" style connector, while 
>the SPARCstation has a miniature 50 pin connector (I don't know the 
>official name of this).  The best our normal vendor can do is come up with
>the connectors themselves, but they don't have the necessary pin out 
>information to construct the cable.
>
>Any suggestions as to alternate cable vendors, or sources for the pin
>outs for both the SPARCstation and the Sony drive would be greatly
>appreciated. 

We got ours from:

	Monster Cable
	101 Townsend St
	San Francisco, CA 94107
	Telex: 470584 MSCYUI
	Fax: (415) 896-1745

The cable comes in a "MacCable" box, with both the box and the
cable itself labeled as if it had a centronix male connector one
both ends.  Apparently the centronix/db50 cable is low enough volume
that they didn't print up a box for it.

I have pinouts around here somewhere for mac DB-25 / Cen 50 and
Sun DB-50 / Cen50 conversions if anybody is interested.