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From: rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  MacPlus <-> Apollo SCSI disk
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Date: 27 Jun 91 17:01:13 GMT
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In article <9106271341.AA01606@richter.mit.edu>, krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) writes:

  Apollo 80Mb SCSI shoebox disks? With a 36-pin flat connector?
  Never heard of such a beast! I have, however heard of an 80 Mb
  external disk with or without an 8" floppy for the DN300/320/330
  series. It has a flat, shielded ribbon cable, usually a heavy
  black cable.

"Heavy" is an understatement.  The disk is 70 Mb, not 80, and each of the
two cables (one for hard disk, one for floppy) has 50 conductors.  At least
for the floppy cable, every other conductor is also a signal ground, so it's
a well shielded cable.