2 Feb
2025
2 Feb
'25
4:18 p.m.
Same here!
Had a 101 in the basement connected to my PET upstairs because of space and
noise, with a 35-40 foot long ribbon cable far exceeding the recommended
maximum cable length; never a problem.
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On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
>>
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.