SCSI DB25 External to 50-Pin Internal

[JimS]

I used to make these back when i was an Amiga dealer. We used them to convert pc minitowers into external SCSI boxes. You could get the stuff at Radio Shack for the most part, although it may no longer be true. They made a small circuit board that was a match for one of their prototyping boards.
radio shack
If you look at that board, you see two common strips down the middle of the board. All of the pins on one side of the idc50 are ground except one. so if you isolate that pin on the board, you can solder idc50 there. Then it gives easy access to all the pins on the other side. Then you get a short DB25 cable - making sure it has all 25 pins... cut it in half and wire it to the proper pins of the IDC50. Use a standard internal scsi ribbon cable to connect to the drive & you're done.

easier to do than to describe. ;-)

[JimS]

Xamiche wrote:
Although Radio Shack, or Tandy as it's called here, stop selling such things a decade ago. They're pretty much and electrical appliance store now. Electronics stores are scarce these day. Electronics is not as popular a hobby as it once was. :-(

Most of the radio shacks here in the US seem to be cell phone and satellite TV stores. ;-/ Although you can still find components tucked away in a disused lavatory behind the "beware of the leopard" sign. ;-) I'm with you on the decline of the electronics hobby. Maybe it has to do with so many of the interesting components being SMT and difficult for the hobbyist to use. It used to be that there were over half a dozen hobbyist magazines here... now there's one general and maybe a couple ham radio mags left...

Hell, at one time there were more Amiga magazine titles than the number of users left here in 2008. ;-)