[rescue] Any interest in NeXT kit?

Mouse mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG
Sat Dec 18 06:52:04 CST 2021


I think it's time for me to stop keeping what remaining NeXT kit I
still have.

At the moment, this means some cables.  I'm not sure how much else I
may have, but I want to get things out of here and I think I'm unlikely
to ever use these cables.  (If I do end up having any other NeXT
hardware on offer, I'll post about it separately.)

This means:

- Four short (about 50cm) and two long (about 3m) mono video cables.
   These are the ones with the odd (nonstandard as far as I know)
   19-pin D-sub connector on each end - two pin-pairs longer than a DA
   but three pin-pairs shorter than a DB.

- One partial cable which looks as though I cut a mono video cable in
   order to connect directly to the various signals.  (I have found
   only one of the (presumably) two resulting pieces.)

- One splitter cable, three connectors.  The common connector is a
   13W3, mechanically identical to the 13W3s I'm used to from Sun, SGI,
   etc.  One of the other connectors is another 13W3; the other is
   mechanically identical to the 19-pin mono video connector.  The
   13W3-13W3 cable is (almost?) exactly the same length as the short
   mono video cables; the 13W3-D?19 cable is a few inches longer.

- One DE-9 to DE-9 cable.  I haven't buzzed this out, so I don't know
   its pinout, but the ends are the same sex and marked identically, so
   it probably is symmetric.  Like the long mono video cables, it is
   about 3m long.

I suspect the last cable isn't for serial - using DE-9 for serial is
pretty much a peecee-world thing as I understand it, and furthermore
usually uses male for devices and female for cables, while this cable
has male connectors - but I have only speculation as to what it is for.
My best guess at the moment is that it's a printer cable.  But, as I
don't have any NeXTen out where I can get to them and haven't laid eyes
on a NeXT printer in well over a decade, that's a pretty shaky guess.

These are in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  They're (relatively) light and
difficult to damage in transit, so I can pop them in a box and get it
on the snail if anyone wants them.

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