Hardware pinouts details and cables schemes

Obsolete: Disk drives cables

  • ESDI cable The ESDI interface requires two cables, one for control and one for data. The control cable is shared between the two drives.
  • ST506/412 cable 
  • Paravision SX1 to IDE cable Can be used to connect a normal IDE harddisk to the Paravision SX1. Paravision was earlier known as Microbotics
  • X1541 cable Used to transfer data from a Commodore 1541/1581 diskdrive to a PC.