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@Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:55:52 -0400
Subject: Re: Mystery cable
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In , on 08/20/03 
   at 06:21 AM, Davey Brain  typed:

>At one end is a male DB-25.  At the other end is a strange plug. 
>  It resembles a USB plug (B?  The squarish one, not the flat type) but 
>it isn't the same.  Inside that plug it has 6 spring loaded pins (not 4 
>like USB) and is narrower.  It is a grey translucent cable and it 
>appears as if four wires go to the DB-25, orange to pin 1, green to pin 
>2, blue to pin 10, and black to pin 25.  I'm assuming it either is a 
>proprietary parallel to something cable, or a proprietary PCMCIA card to 
>serial modem cable. 

Could be almost anything.  My HP scanner (4P) uses a semi-scsi card and a
cable that is DB25 on one end and a form of Centronics (not the printer
form) on the scanner end.

6 pins is probably not enough for a scanner.
 
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