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Can anyone identify this Mystery Cable and Adapter?

RedJacketPress

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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!
 

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ScutBoy

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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.
 

RedJacketPress

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

Pushpull76

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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.
 

MrFahrenheit

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Image 0941 and 0942 is a SCSI gender changing adapter.

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

mikes-macs

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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.
 

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ArmorAlley

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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?
 

RedJacketPress

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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.)
 
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