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From: steveg@umd5.umd.edu (Steve Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: What to cut?
Message-ID: <6090@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 90 15:54:13 GMT
References: <1990Feb6.113438.11827@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
Reply-To: steveg@umd5.umd.edu (Steve Green)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <1990Feb6.113438.11827@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us> alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle) writes:
]OK, now that I have my internal Mac Plus disk drive back--and have lost
]the connector cable--somebody please tell me which lines to cut on an SE
]ribbon so I can use it instead!
]
]I've been sur5ing on a Fujitsu external floppy drive, which I heartily
]recommend.  It's got (1) an access light (b) a *real* eject button (iii)
]quiet operation (4) an 18-month warranty.  And it's cheap!
]
]	Buy American when I can,
]		Alex

Counting the wires on the ribbon cable, start with the end that has the colored
stripe on it and call that wire #1.  Then cut #9 and #20.
If you are not sure what end to start with, look on the connectors for a
small arrow.  That should signify pin #1.