28 Jan
2008
28 Jan
'08
7:08 a.m.
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:32:35 -0800
From: Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca>
I thought it
was "Amphenol 57 Series".
I suspect "Blue-Ribbon" may be the name of the original larger style, and
"Micro-Ribbon" is the name of the smaller style more popular now-a-days.
If that's correct, the plug-in input modules for 60's-era tube Tekky
scopes (for example) used a Blue-Ribbon connector, while the Centronics
connector is a Micro-Ribbon connector. Going fom the Amphenol web-site, 57
series appears to be either a synonym for the Micro-Ribbon series or a
subset of the Micro-Ribbon series.