6 Feb
2011
6 Feb
'11
12:28 p.m.
On 6 Feb 2011 at 19:52, Tony Duell wrote:
And of course the well-known 'fact' that all D connectors are in a size
'B' shell :-)
But I guess it's like the example Philip (I
think) stated of calling
the BS4343 plugs 'Commando Plugs'.
Or the way 36-positon (printer) or 50-position (SCSI-I) connectors
are referred to as "Centronics" connectors. Before that, when the 50- position unit saw most of its use in office key
telephone systems, it
I've seen it called a 'Telco' connctor, even in respectable manuals like
those from HP.
was often referred to as an "Amphenol" or
"Blue Ribbon" connector.
I thought that strictly 'Blue Ribbon' were the larger ones, like the oens
used on Tektornic 1-series and letter-series plug-ins. The
Centronics/SCSI-1/GPIB connectors are 'microribbon'.
I've never heard the 24-position version of the
connector used for
GPIB called "Centronics", however.
I have. At least one catalogue used to list 'Centronics' connectors in
14, 24, 36 and 50 way versions. Another catalogue (from a very well-knwon
electronic compont distributro over here) listed 'IEEE-488' conenctors in
14, 24, 36 nad 50 way versions. Yes, they are what we're talking about...
-tony