Thanks Chuck, no, I didn't get harmonica blocks. Since I didn't
hear people want any of these cables I just listed them on ebay
for a small fee. If somebody needs them badly and can't afford,
I'll cancel that auction. I actually have a manual for the
CXA16 and included it in the auction. Thanks for the info.

regards
-Gunther

Chuck McManis wrote:

> At 06:22 PM 11/17/01 -0500, Gunther Schadow wrote:
> 
>> I have a big pile of DEC BC16D-25 cable. ...
>> If you know what this cable is used for or if you want it,
>> please let me know.
> 
> 
> Hi Gunthar,
> 
> These cables are used to connect a CXA16 and some other 8 port DEC cards 
> (the time share card for the VAXServer come to mind) to something called 
> a "harmonica block" this is a box that has one of those centronics 
> connectors on it on one side and 8 MMJ ports on the other.
> 
> Currently NetBSD does not support the CXA16 but VMS does and I've got 
> one as my multiuser demo system.
> 
> The cables come in a couple of flavors, in one, one of the centronics 
> has a right angle configuration to allow it to be used with a BA213 with 
> the door on. In another both ends are right angles. I've not seen one 
> that was straight on both ends but DEC made a _lot_ of different cables.
> 
> Did you get a pile of harmonica blocks with the cables?
> 
> --Chuck


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