I picked up a strange looking Commodore branded cable today at the thrift
store.

It plugs into the user port on one end and has a pass-through connector on
the other end.  The connector is a 24pin Centronics (male on one side of
the pass-through and female on the other side).

It also has a small braided ground wire on each end of the cable.

The part number on the cable reads: Commodore 4032036-01.  The
pass-through has the Commodore symbol stamped into each side.

What is this cable and what was it used for?

Thanks...

Tony Cianfaglione wrote:
> I picked up a strange looking Commodore branded cable today at the
> thrift store.
>
> It plugs into the user port on one end and has a pass-through
> connector on the other end.  The connector is a 24pin Centronics
> (male on one side of the pass-through and female on the other side).
>
> It also has a small braided ground wire on each end of the cable.
>
> The part number on the cable reads: Commodore 4032036-01.  The
> pass-through has the Commodore symbol stamped into each side.
>
> What is this cable and what was it used for?
>
> Thanks...

Sounds like it could be an old Arbiter interface - basically IEEE
networking. When it worked, it was great, but it was one heck of a kludge.
Used to use that back in the early '80 in the lab at High School.

Z

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In article <Pine.GSO.3.95.iB1.0.1030807202205.13848B-100000@halifax.chebucto.ns.ca>,
Tony Cianfaglione  <ab616@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:
>
>The part number on the cable reads: Commodore 4032036-01.  The
>pass-through has the Commodore symbol stamped into each side.
>

  PET-to-IEEE cable.  Have one right here; have used it for over twenty years.

  Does it actually fit in the user port?  Heh.  I never tried that, since I
always knew where it went.  ;-)

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On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, David Evans wrote:

>   PET-to-IEEE cable.  Have one right here; have used it for over twenty years.
> 
>   Does it actually fit in the user port?  Heh.  I never tried that, since I
> always knew where it went.  ;-)