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#Help!

    10-Oct-92 17:51:14
Sb: #Help!
Fm: Gracia M. Littauer 73670,1020
To: Michael Gerard 75505,1757
Michael, "Plug and go" you say? I haven't stopped laughing (or is it crying?). Didn't you forget parity, ARBT & test settings? Leave as is? How do big hands get tiny little jumpers out and onto other teeny pins? I made a dumb mistake and ordered terminator packs for the CD drive and he installed them, only I can't figure out if the funny blue bars with pins coming out of them are the terminators and can I just pull them out of the green card that they are in which is in back of the 50 pin male (real pins) connector. (OK, teckies, stop laughing). Inside the case in was a ribbon cable with a 50 pin female connector (I would call it centronics style) at either end (2 in all) and 2 50 pin black plastic female connectors at intervals on the cable. I see the back of the CD ROM drive & tape drive have 50 pin male plugs (real pins), a match I guess. I imagine I can match up all the other cute plugs & receptacles <g>. You said your ribbon cable had two 50 pin connectors at one and an Amiga SCSI 25 pin connector at the other. They also sent a regular cable with a 50 pin (centronics style) male end and a 25 pin male (SCSI?) at the other. I have the feeling these are wrong. Do you punch out one of the the back indents so you can plug in cable? With what, a sledge hammer? I guess girls like to know EXACTLY what they're doing and boys like to take a chance. \c/ via Coolwhap __|__ Gracia