Here's a pic: https://jumpshare.com/s/lsa1xlnzYYOwUgUfkphK

The door built into the front plus the whole housing being fairly deep
makes me think it was intended some flavor of QIC drive.

That shoebox on ebay is a different mystery! 
DB-25 connectors with an Exabyte, weird. 

Doug McIntyre via cctalk <[email protected]> writes:
> The 3B1 (ie. UNIX PC) did not do SCSI. That was an MFM system.
> THe 3B2 lower end models were MFM, and higher end were SCSI based
> systems, although
> I don't remember any external SCSI ports on them.
>
> There's an AT&T SCSI external shoebox Tape drive listed on eBay now.
>
> I'd say its likely that they were done for the 3B2..
> http://www.unixwiz.net/3b2/tapedrives.html
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2025 at 11:18:12AM -0400, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
>> My guess AT&T had scsi era hardware, not super successful, that they sold
>> or re-badged to extend the life of their product line.  Would a 3B2 or UNIX
>> PC have a scsi controller for an external storage device?  Maybe AT&T sold
>> something compatible with Sun hardware to try to tap into the scsi storage
>> market, for a telecommunications product
>> 
>> On Sun, Jun 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM Andrew B via cctalk <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> >
>> > I have an AT&T branded SCSI enclosure. Two half-height bays with the
>> > drives held vertically (on their sides), with a door that opens to
>> > expose one for a tape drive, activity lights labeled hard drive and
>> > tape, CN50 connectors, the AT&T beige and brown
>> > color scheme I associate with 3B's and 6300 PCs. No model number.
>> > Anyone have any idea what this was made for?
>> >
>> >

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