Can anyone identify this Mystery Cable and Adapter?

[RedJacketPress]

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!

 

[ScutBoy]

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]

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

 

[Phipli]

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

 

[RedJacketPress]

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

 

[Pushpull76]

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]

Image 0941 and 0942 is a SCSI gender changing adapter.

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

 

[Pushpull76]

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.

www.computercablestore.com

 

[cheesestraws]

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

 

[RedJacketPress]

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

 

[MrFahrenheit]

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.

 

[mikes-macs]

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.

 

[ArmorAlley]

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]

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.)