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Can anyone identify this Mystery Cable and Adapter?

Posted by: RedJacketPress on 2022-08-17 12:07:49

These came connected to one another:

The Cable is AWM E89980 CSA LL64151 (might to be a VGA Cable of some sort, based on a search for the product codes). 25-pin male connector on one end, with an 8-pin DIN connector on the other end. It was connected to an adapter with no visible markings -- 25-pin female at one end, 50-pin male at the other. It may not be clear from the photo, but three pins on the right side on the top are bent up -- I don't know if that was accidental, or intentional.

Curious to know what this was meant for!

Posted by: ScutBoy on 2022-08-17 12:12:25

The adapter looks like could be a 25pin to narrow SCSI adapter, but that means it would have nothing do do with the 8-pin -> 25 pin cable except fit on it physically.

Posted by: RedJacketPress on 2022-08-17 12:14:12

Yeah, the 8-pin end of it struck me as odd, particularly when research suggested it might be some sort of VGA Cable.

Posted by: Phipli on 2022-08-17 12:19:18

The 8 to 25 is a serial cable? Apple to 25pin RS232.

Posted by: RedJacketPress on 2022-08-17 12:22:31

If that is what it is (it has no Apple markings), what might that have been used for?

Posted by: Pushpull76 on 2022-08-17 12:28:47

The cable looks like mine for an Apple Imagewriter. The adapter....it's the same shape of the cables used for the Digidesign interfaces (888 as example) but I never saw that in a system.

Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2022-08-17 12:31:45

Image 0941 and 0942 is a SCSI gender changing adapter.

The image 0945 looks like a modem adapter cable to Macintosh serial port.

Posted by: Pushpull76 on 2022-08-17 12:36:31

SCSI Adapter - SCSI 2 HD50(MD50) Male to SCSI 1 DB25 Female

This SCSI Adapter - SCSI 2 HD50(MD50) Male to SCSI 1 DB25 Female from Computer Cable Store offers you the ability to connect an existing SCSI 1 cable to a newer SCSI 2 device or vice versa without having to buy new cables.

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Posted by: cheesestraws on 2022-08-17 12:37:43

Agreed, this looks like a serial cable, perhaps for a printer, with an unrelated SCSI dongle attached to it.

Posted by: RedJacketPress on 2022-08-17 13:19:25

I guess the pins that have been bent up on the adapter should not be bent up, after all?

Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2022-08-17 21:06:07

I guess the pins that have been bent up on the adapter should not be bent up, after all?

Ooooo.... yes.

Didn't notice those before. They need to be in-line with the others.

Posted by: mikes-macs on 2022-08-17 21:56:47

Image 0945 looks like the cable that connects to my Supra fax modem with the 25 pin end, and the 8 pin din goes to modem port. It does have "RS 232" on the modem.

Posted by: ArmorAlley on 2022-08-17 22:39:21

These came connected to one another:

The Cable is AWM E89980 CSA LL64151 (might to be a VGA Cable of some sort, based on a search for the product codes). 25-pin male connector on one end, with an 8-pin DIN connector on the other end. It was connected to an adapter with no visible markings -- 25-pin female at one end, 50-pin male at the other. It may not be clear from the photo, but three pins on the right side on the top are bent up -- I don't know if that was accidental, or intentional.

Curious to know what this was meant for!

Would you show the other side of img_0941 please?
It is a SCSI-adapter, but what kind?
And what is the black box in img_0945? Is it a modem?

Posted by: RedJacketPress on 2022-08-18 10:49:59

Would you show the other side of img_0941 please?
It is a SCSI-adapter, but what kind?
And what is the black box in img_0945? Is it a modem?

The back of the Adapter is a 25-pin female connector -- that was what the other cable was connected to, leading me to wonder if they were meant to be used together. (Consensus opinion thus far seems to be probably not.)