1 Jan
2002
1 Jan
'02
3:04 a.m.
Upon the date 09:52 PM 12/30/01 -0500, CLeyson(a)aol.com said something like:
Regards, Chris
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Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian
Jamestown, NY USA cfandt(a)netsync.net
Member of Antique Wireless Association
URL: http://www.antiquewireless.org/
Fred Cisin wrote
Sigh . . . They obviously never got into building their own designs and/or
never were of the tinkering/hobbyist or Amateur Radio types like more than
a few of us are on the list. That I feel an important attribute of an
engineer is being able to independently handle construction of a project
beginning with a concept through to final debug.
In place of current accepted sloppy terminology,
how many remember what they were called THEN?
Most of the engineers I work with have never heard of Amphenol or Cannon,
let alone "blue range" or "red range" (popular Cannon connectors)
It's a classic chicken and egg thing. Ampenol connectors were adopted as
a "standard" connector for Centronics printer, IEEE-488 and SCSI interface,
but are often mis-named. As I don't have an Amphenol catalogue to hand,
I'm afraid I can't tell you what Amphenol's designation is for this connector.
Their designation for this family of connectors was "Micro Ribbon", a.k.a.
"57- Series" It's a denser version of their very good rack/panel
connectors, the "Blue Ribbon" line which appeared in the late 40's.