Today, Benjamin Scott gleaned this insight:

> On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Dan York wrote:
> > 1. Anyone have a clue where I could get a SCSI cable that has a DB25 male
> > connector on it?
> 
>   That style connector is called "Apple kludge" (no, I'm not making that up,
> it is in the SCSI FAQ).  It works (I use the term loosely) by tying all of
> the ground pins together.  Yuck.  It is still in use today, on many Macs and a
> some PC devices.  In particular, the IOMega external Zip drives use it.

Yep, you can actually get the cables from Iomega.


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