[rescue] Any interest in NeXT kit?

[Steve Hatle]

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Steve

> Mouse <mailto:mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG>
> December 18, 2021 at 6:52 AM
> 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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