What kind of port has 17- pins?

[Bellweather]

Anybody ever heard of a port with 17 pins? My grandpa has an external 5 1/4 inch drive with a 17 pin cable. Thanks for the help.

 

[Bellweather]

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[r0tt3n1]

Is it the cable or the device that has 17 pins?? Only thing I can recall is old Apple 19-pin external drives........ hmmmmmmmm

 

[PH0ENIX]

It's most likely a proprietry interface...

On something like that, it could be for anything - I dont know what connections the commodore64 used (mine had cassettes , Im not sure if Apple ever had external 5 1/4, but most likely they did.

it doesn't sound like any kind of PC interface though; perhaps if you could draw a diagram or describe what the port looks like (ie: 2 or 3 rows of pins, how long, how wide, what shape etc.) I might be able to find out, but I think the question is why do you want to!

Unless you have some really important info on 5 1/4" disks... An archaic 486 with a 3.5" floppy would cost less than the cable for that external drive, I would imagine...

But, if you really need it, try and grab some more info - maybe even a model off the drive?

 

[jamarno]

Could it be from an ancient Commodore, Atari, or Amiga? At least one of them used a smart interface that was a bit like SCSI (much slower)

 

[eplebnista]

Here is a pinouts page that might be helpful.

eplebnista

 

[Bellweather]

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