looking for SCSI cable ..

Neil Joseph Schelly neil at neilschelly.com
Wed Dec 29 15:47:00 EST 2004


On Wednesday 29 December 2004 03:33 pm, you wrote:
> On Dec 29, 2004, at 2:41 PM, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
> > I think the HD=HPDB question you bring up is probably just a typo,
> > or a misnomer anyway.
>
> HD (high density) and HPDB (Half-Pitch DB) are somewhat interchangable.
>   Some people used to call the 50-pin telco-style SCSI connectors
> "Centronics 50" but pundits would argue that Centronics never made a
> 50, just a 36.  Of course, these pundits may have been wrong too.
>
> Heck, I don't even know what DB stands for...

Thanks for clarifying... and I always assumed that DB was somehow an 
abbreviation for D-Sub, but I have no idea if that even makes sense.
-N



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