phone systems, old and less-old

[Fred Cisin]

>> Please don't let anybody call the 25 pair 50-pin miniature ribbon
>> connector (RJ21),  "Centronics"!

On Wed, 18 Sep 2019, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> We used to call them "blue ribbon" connectors.  I'm sure that that's
> also a misnomer.

I still believe that that is the correct name.
I've always assumed that that was Amphenol's name for that line of 
connector when they invented it.  I also assumed that "blue ribbon" was a 
reference to the blue first-prize ribbons at county fair type contests.

Although a friend claimed that that name was unintentional, since instead 
of pins, it uses "ribbon contacts", hence also "micro ribbon connector". 
and many of them had a BLUE plastic center section.