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From: dudevoir@isl.Stanford.EDU (Glen P. Dudevoir)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple HD80SC... Quantum ???
Message-ID: <382@isl.stanford.edu>
Date: 28 Jan 89 05:30:34 GMT
References: <19105@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <8400055@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <40f1d90b.10342@fir.engin.umich.edu> <40f20383.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu>
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In article <40f20383.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu> billkatt@caen.engin.umich.edu (Steve Bollinger) writes:
>In article <40f1d90b.10342@fir.engin.umich.edu> swerling@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ace Swerling) writes:
>>standard SCSI is that Apple uses a 25 pin port while the standard
>>calls for a 50 pin port.  Apple claims not to need the extra 25
>>pins, so they're not going to use them.  Recently, a bunch of
>>computer manufacturers got together to discuss the standard.
>...
>as well as all Apple hard drives.  I use standard connector in quotes because
>it is no more standard than the 25 pin DB.  Look at the back of a Sun some
>time, their connector is no more standard than the DB-25.
>

Sorry, Sun uses a 50 pin connector. I don't know if it is called this 
but for lack of a better name I would call it a DB-50; it has the same
shape as a DB-25.

Glen
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