Strange and Possibly Wonderful Cable

Speaking of these, I located a blue ribbon cable with a card edge on one side, centronics on the other - I beleive it was for a Tandy printer on possibly a model 4. Been in storage for years and anyone that wants it can have it for $1 over the cost of mailing (should be very light, probably can go first class mail). The $1 is to cover what I gave for it. It's small enough that it could even go outside the US cheaply. Contact me off-list at rhblakeman(a)kih.net if you want more info or want it. I have to get a money order in US fund s for it, or Paypal for the amount plus a buck for the Paypal fee (it would be $2 plus shipping in that case, still cheap) -----Original Message----- From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 10:20 AM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Strange and Possibly Wonderful Cable used Not to be picky (well, OK, I do tend to be :-), "IDC" stands/stood for "Insulation Displacement Conector", which meant virtually ANY crimp-on connector, INCLUDING the card edge connector on drive cables for 5.25, and the computer end of model 1,3,4 printer cables when they used ribbon cable. Since the "centronics" connector (Amphenol Blue Ribbon 36 pin) wasn't very available in IDC, those cables were kinda hoky, with either a non ribbon "centronics" soldered to ribbon cable, or a card edge crimped onto spread out non-ribbon cable. The one model 2 cable that I remember using (20 yrs ago) did NOT have IDC connector. It was a round cable (I don't know whether it was shielded), with a 20 pin dual row header sloppily put onto the end.