10 Nov
2006
10 Nov
'06
2:55 a.m.
On 10/11/06, 9000 VAX <vax9000 at gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/9/06, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
wrote:
I had a look around google earlier about this it seems that it just
stuck as it was a bigger version of their printer connection (Which
was made by Wang anyway). It is called a centronics connection in the
scsi-1 spec as well. But it looks like it was never used on any
centronics equipment.
Dan
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I used this term because everybody on ebay used it. I met it when I was
searching for SCSI cables on ebay for my 3900.
vax, 9000
Might as well ask why ALL D shell connectors are referred to as size B.
Why do folks insist on calling this type of
connector "Centronics"?
I've even hear the "C" word applied to HPIB connectors. Centronics
never used the 50 pin version, did they?
I've heard them called Amphenol, CHAMP, telco, PBX and RJ21X
connectors as well as "Blue Ribbon" (shows my age). But why
"Centronics"?
For many people who had never seen a computer until 1979 (TRS-80),
Centronics printers were the first places that they saw them.
Although business telephone systems had been using them for multi-line
phones for quite a while, "Only technicians" ever connected or
disconnected those.