18 Sep
2019
18 Sep
'19
7:23 p.m.
> Please don't let anybody call the 25 pair
50-pin miniature ribbon
> connector (RJ21),? "Centronics"!
On Wed, 18 Sep 2019, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
We used to call them "blue ribbon"
connectors. I'm sure that that's
also a misnomer.
I still believe that that is the correct name.
I've always assumed that that was Amphenol's name for that line of
connector when they invented it. I also assumed that "blue ribbon" was a
reference to the blue first-prize ribbons at county fair type contests.
Although a friend claimed that that name was unintentional, since instead
of pins, it uses "ribbon contacts", hence also "micro ribbon
connector".
and many of them had a BLUE plastic center section.