On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Tony Duell wrote:
Well, for home comuputers, maybe (the DIN connector
[1], another horrible
thing, beaten only by the mini-DIN IMHO, was not at all common on larger
machines . But the DB25 was already well-established for RS232 serial
connections at that point.
[1] I don't know the date of that either, but Philips had DIN connectors
on tape recoerders in the mid 1960s.
My father had a Telefunken "High Fi" from the 50s that had some DINs.
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