14 Dec
2015
14 Dec
'15
6:15 p.m.
On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Mike Ross wrote:
I thought Centronics dated back to early 1970s - not
always in the
standard 'modern' form, but in general principles with same signaling
and strobing of data.
I got in late. My first encounter with Centronics was TRS80 (1979?)
At that time, Centronics did not yet have a monopoly on parallel
"protocols", although the company had certainly been around for a while.
Once they got the TRS80 market, and then the IBM PC market, any other
designs faded away fast.