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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 1993
Filed:
Dec. 20, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Terry J Parks, Round Rock, TX (US);
Joseph M Maurin, Austin, TX (US);
Kenneth L Jeffries, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Dell USA L.P., Austin, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K / ; H01R / ; H04L / ; H01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
361729 ; 361679 ; 439502 ; 375 36 ; 375121 ; 307147 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for a computer system to rapidly access at least two IDE disk drives. Use of standard forty pin connectors and forty wire ribbon cable having certain pairs of wires uniquely twisted so as to allow the system to independently access the IDE drives.