Mystery internal cable from IIx

[Johnnya101]

This cable was found inside my IIx from Littleton Coin Company in NH. There are two nubus card slot holes open, so I would have assumed they would have had a video card and a card for whatever this cable is. Or maybe they just threw it in the case while decommissioning it. No nubus cards came with it, so they must have kept them and put them in whatever they upgraded to.

I couldn't find any obvious nubus cards with whatever connector type this is. Just curious on what this computer may have been used for in it's past life there!

Side question: Has anyone ever removed the apple logo from a big box II? There is no hole to remove it on my IIfx or this IIx. I'd drill one but don't want to hurt the emblem.

 

[Johnnya101]

Found out more, it seems to be a 34 pin card edge connector. Still haven't found anything it might connect to in the nubus world.

Maybe a chance there was some weird SCSI card in it with an adapter which it connected to, then went to a weird 34 pin high speed HDD of some sort (Like the connor drive that has 34 pins?).

 

[mg.man]

Or maybe it's nothing to do with the Mac at all? Isn't the edge connector on a "PC" 5 1/4" drive 34pins? Or maybe someone made a 5 1/4" "floppy" controller for NUBUS?

 

[unity]

The problem is there are so many of the same cables used for the different things. Really need the card that maybe it connected to. Or like you said, could have been a PC item tossed in, fell in.

For removing the Apple logo. Find a small pin, those with the round plastic ball on the end. Take a small pliers and bend it to form a small L. Use a hair dryer to warm the logo area up. Take the pin and insert between the logo/case. Will be really tight. Then try to turn the pin under etc logo and pull up.

 

[mg.man]

That cable... same 34 pin edge connector on both ends? Any connectors in the middle? Any twists in the cable?

 

[Johnnya101]

@mg.man Yes, could be from anything. When they decommissioned it, they could have threw it in. Wondering if there was any such nubus type device that may have used it to hint at what the IIx was originally used for, but I can't find anything, so probably some random cable.

Same connector on both ends. No other connectors, just a flat ribbon cable. No twists, nothing. Like an Apple SCSI gray ribbon SCSI cable, but with these connectors.

Also, just looked up a 5 1/4 internal cable. That's it! Shows you how many members on here, including myself, use old Windows or DOS boxes (Never). Looks like they threw it in.

 

[mg.man]

I was working for IBM when the PC/XT was launched...

 

[Johnnya101]

I was working for IBM when the PC/XT was launched...

Have any cool stories? Or were you in a totally separate department than the PC division?

 

[mg.man]

I don't know about "cool" stories, but I worked in a development lab and we had one of the original Mac 128s, a Lisa, etc... Wish I had them now...

 

[mg.man]

we had one of the original Mac 128s, a Lisa, etc...

Oh, and all manor of unannounced IBM PC-type machines... some that never made it out... Wish I had those too....