Mid Atlantic DB-37 cable Free

[agentb]

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Anyone need a DB-37 cable? This is about 5ft and pretty heavy duty. Free with shipping from 19018.

 

[pbirkel@gmail.com]

Sent PM. I'm near you (DC area).

 

[maxtherabbit]

Seconds

 

[agentb]

If anyone else is interested, let me know and I'll roll the dice to see who the lucky winner is.

What is this cable even used for? External floppy drive? Or are there other devices too?

 

[wperko]

Hi, I'd be interested. I can be used for older floppy disk drives like the Altair, Pertec ...

I would like it too. Seeing the first PM I thought it was just gone.

 

[pbirkel@gmail.com]

What is this cable even used for? External floppy drive? Or are there other devices too?

In my case, an external 1/2" tape drive.

 

[maxtherabbit]

If anyone else is interested, let me know and I'll roll the dice to see who the lucky winner is.

What is this cable even used for? External floppy drive? Or are there other devices too?

Let the first guy have it. I was only asking for seconds if that fell though

 

[wperko]

Hi,

I'd say the guy with a 1/2" tape drive should be considered before little floppy drives since the cable looks to be for a larger external connection than a little box sitting next to an Altair 8800 computer.

 

[Chuck(G)]

In all my life, I have never seen a DB-37 cable or connector. A DC-37, sure, but am not aware of a DB-37 animal, DB-25, DB-44 and DB-52, sure...

 

[Chuck(G)]

In my case, an external 1/2" tape drive.

What drive would that be? A DC-62 HD seems to be more the rule on many 1/2" tabletop tape drives.

 

[agentb]

In all my life, I have never seen a DB-37 cable or connector. A DC-37, sure, but am not aware of a DB-37 animal, DB-25, DB-44 and DB-52, sure...

i know, i know -- I should have used the proper DC-37 terminology lol

 

[agentb]

well fortunately for pbirkel, `shuf -i1-3 -n1` returned 1 so shipping to him today. Thanks for playing!

 

[maxtherabbit]

What drive would that be? A DC-62 HD seems to be more the rule on many 1/2" tabletop tape drives.

I'd also like to know just out of curiosity

 

[pbirkel@gmail.com]

I believe that it's a Qualstor with an adapter and ISA controller, don't recall which model.
It's not accessible at the moment so I'm currently operating from fallible memory!

 

[Chuck(G)]

My experience with the Qualstars is that the DC-62 connector is used for the Pertec interface. SCSI on my Qualstar drives uses the standard 50 conductor "blue ribbon" cable.
I was a bit curious about this since a DC-37 lacks sufficient conductors for a Pertec interface and is not usual for them for SCSI.
I'd appreciate being updated on this if I'm mistaken, thanks.