31 Jan
2025
31 Jan
'25
3:07 p.m.
On 1/31/25 13:57, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote:
On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Out in the field during the late 60s and 70s, I found that the
Dataproducts interface was more common than the Centronics.
--Chuck
The first parallel printers might have been
Centronics. Hence the
interface and blue ribbon connector being called "Centronics parallel"
The first printer that Radio Shack/Tandy sold for the TRS-80 (at least
in the UK) -- the 'TRS-80 Line Printer' (it was nothng of the sort, of
course) -- was a rebadged Cantronics with the obvious parallel
interface. I have the Centronics version here and repair it using the
Radio Shack service manual.