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Ribbon Cable

Last Updated May 24, 2021 1:53 pm

A flat, thin cable containing many parallel wires. Because of their shape, ribbon cables are ideal for situations where space needs to be conserved. They’re used, for example, within a computer chassis to connect disk drives to the disk drive controllers.

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