Greetings;

I spent an hour early this morning looking around in the cracks and 
crannies of both web sites, looking for an adapter that would plug into 
the 50 pin sockets on the 7i90, that would, without interfering with the 
adjacent socket, give me a row of micro screw terminals so I wouldn't 
have to putz with cutting these pissy-assed, cheap jumper cables in two 
and splicing them onto the ends of the cables coming into the box, 

Failed miserably.

I can well imagine that such a connector is not a COTS item. But trying 
to get 50 wire ribbon cables to some place remote from a card like the 
7i90HD isn't a luxury I have room for, so I am forced to use these very 
pooly built jumpers solder spliced & heat shrink covered to make the 
transition from the larger gauge coupling wires in the cables going out 
to the machine. It does suggest a new layout at some point for those 
cards that use the 50 pin scsi-ii type sockets, putting one connector 
per card edge so the plugging in of a purely passive terminal block 
adaptor then leaves access for all 3, as opposed to haveing them covered 
by their neighbors 50-way ribbons.

Better, nearly as compact options? Suggestions aimed for limited overhead 
situations?  I'm all eyes.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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