1 Feb
2025
1 Feb
'25
11:03 p.m.
>> Another pet gripe of mine is calling the old
50-way SCSI/etc. connector
>> a "Centronics" connector,regardless of application or number of
>> connections.
>> I prefer to refer to them as "blue ribbon" connectors, developed by
>> Amphenol in 1950 and used extensively in commercial telephone systems
>> long before Centronics or SCSI.
> I've always called them Amphenol connectors, although strictly speaking
> Amphenol made more than one design.
On Sat, 1 Feb 2025, Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk wrote:
Actually, in 1971 they were originally marked A-MP,
which stood for
Aero-MarineProducts.
And as far as the statement that Epson standarised the Centronics connector
goes, I say 'hogwash' - it was being used by Centronics many years before
Epson came on to the market. I was servicing teh Centronics 101, 103 and
306 back in 1975, including making cables to hook them up to PDP11s. I
Centronics had already STANDARDIZED the connector, but Epson made it known
to the general public.
I loved the 101.
When I retired mine, I tried unsuccessfully to get $25 each at swaps. So,
I donated them to a community colege that was desperate for sturdier more
rugged printers for their lab, and took $1000 each tax deduction.