10 Nov
2006
10 Nov
'06
3:26 a.m.
On 10 Nov 2006 at 10:55, Dan Williams wrote:
I had a look around google earlier about this it seems
that it just
stuck as it was a bigger version of their printer connection (Which
was made by Wang anyway). It is called a centronics connection in the
scsi-1 spec as well. But it looks like it was never used on any
centronics equipment.
We had a couple of the Centronics/CDC 400 line printers. I never saw
the "Centronics" connector part though--the connector on the computer
end of the cable was for a Dataproducts printer.
It's funny--in the grand scheme of things, the Centronics use of the
Amphenol Blue Ribbon connector was fairly late in the game. PBXes
had used them for multiline connectors and station connections for
more than a decade before the guys at Wang stuckthe 34-pin versiont
on their printers.
Amphenol's still around as a brand, I believe and KSU's still use the
50 pin version (RJ21X). Centronics is long gone, vanished into the
bowels of a kitchenware maker.
Cheers,
Chuck