Re: Commodore 65 and DIN8 cable

From: Justin <shadow_at_darksideresearch.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 20:04:42 -0400
Message-Id: <5CACC577-FB90-4AA1-AD90-989D1DDDE3EF@darksideresearch.com>
IIRC from the bygone days of yore, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, sometimes the cables only had a few pins actually connected.  They were usually cheaper bundle-in cables that were for RS232 devices or the like.  That might line up with Anders’ NC guess.

Justin

> On Mar 15, 2016, at 19:51, Bo Zimmerman <bo@zimmers.net> wrote:
> 
> On 3/12/2016 1:13 PM, Michał Pleban wrote:
>> Hello!
>> 
>> Bo Zimmerman wrote:
>> 
>>> The internal drive works fine in both cases.
>> Thank you for testing. That is bad news :-( You don't happen to own
>> another DIN8 cable, do you?
> 
> OK, I'm going to tell you what happened, but I cannot explain it.
> 
> The AppleTalk cable was a complete failure.
> 
> The connectors look identical, right?  The AppleTalk cable was only 3 feet compared to the 10 foot 1521 cable.
> 
> When the cable was connected without the 1565, the computer could no longer even see the drive.
> 
>> Regards,
>> Michau.
>> 
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