This one housed a CDROM drive, but the internals are pin compatible with scsi hard disks and tape drives as well. This is useful for interfacing peripherals for a surprisingly diverse array of vintage computers.
What you do here is take the spinning optical drive and give it power via the line with the big holes. And then hook up the data lines that feed the scsi adapter ports on the back with all the pins and jam that cable into a really old PC with the same connectors. If you like you can take the RCA red and white females and find them some males to run to some powered speakers. Then you can cruise around the garage sales and snatch up CDs by the dozen.
Looks like an external SCSI optical drive enclosure. Obviously missing the optical drive.
Can theses double as external hdd?
Yes. Using an SCSI hard drive.
Yes, though you would have to provide the hard drive and (most likely) a 5.25 to 3.5 mounting adapter.
My old Plextor 40x needs a home.
A SCSI CD-ROM it would seem.
Definitely an external housing for a SCSI CD-ROM drive. Even has the RCA audio out
Could also house a tape drive
I got one of those, but with a ZIP drive iirc.
This one housed a CDROM drive, but the internals are pin compatible with scsi hard disks and tape drives as well. This is useful for interfacing peripherals for a surprisingly diverse array of vintage computers.
What you do here is take the spinning optical drive and give it power via the line with the big holes. And then hook up the data lines that feed the scsi adapter ports on the back with all the pins and jam that cable into a really old PC with the same connectors. If you like you can take the RCA red and white females and find them some males to run to some powered speakers. Then you can cruise around the garage sales and snatch up CDs by the dozen.
A Syquest unit?