28 Jan
2008
28 Jan
'08
2:08 a.m.
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:32:35 -0800
From: Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca>
I thought it
was "Amphenol 57 Series".
I suspect "Blue-Ribbon" may be the name of the original larger style, and
"Micro-Ribbon" is the name of the smaller style more popular now-a-days.
If that's correct, the plug-in input modules for 60's-era tube Tekky
scopes (for example) used a Blue-Ribbon connector, while the Centronics
connector is a Micro-Ribbon connector. Going fom the Amphenol web-site, 57
series appears to be either a synonym for the Micro-Ribbon series or a
subset of the Micro-Ribbon series. 
28 Jan
28 Jan
10:09 a.m.
From: cclist at sydex.com
Hi
Things seem to have drifted a little. It is the wire combination
that I'm interested in. I'm aware that the connector was there
before the printer.
It looks like to the best of knowledge, the 101 may have been
the first. What type of printer was that?
Dwight
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Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:32:35 -0800
From: Brent Hilpert
>> I thought it was "Amphenol 57 Series".
>
> I suspect "Blue-Ribbon" may be the name of the original larger style, and
> "Micro-Ribbon" is the name of the smaller style more popular now-a-days.
> 
3:20 p.m.
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, dwight elvey wrote:
Hi
Things seem to have drifted a little. It is the wire combination
that I'm interested in. I'm aware that the connector was there
before the printer.
It looks like to the best of knowledge, the 101 may have been
the first. What type of printer was that?
ISTR that there was also a 100 ?
The 101 was BIG. It was HEAVY. Substantially bigger and heavier than
Laserjet -. It was fast. It was LOUD!
But, it would fit into the back of a Civic hatchback.
I had one sitting around for years. I took it to some of the John Craig
Computer Swaps in San Jose, and siome of the "Northwest" ones in San
Mateo. I could not sell it. Not for $100; not for $50; not for $20
I gave it to City College Of San Francisco in 1983? when I was doing some
part-time teaching there. They stated a value of $1200! so I got a LOT
more off of my taxes than I could have gotten from a sale.
IF they have stopped using it by now, then it was NOT because it was worn
out.
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4 p.m.
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:20:39PM -0800, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, dwight elvey wrote:
I'm trying to remember an old tank of a Centronics-brand (not just
interfaced) printer I used to have. Perhaps someone will recall from
the description...
Its most unique feature, to me at least, was that it had two print heads,
one for columns 1-80, the second for columns 81-132. I remember it was
fast, loud, and heavy (for a non-pedestal printer). I also recall that
internally, the Centronics connector, which was bolted to the back of the
case, wasn't soldered to the board in the bottom of the printer, it had
a short cable to a 0.156" spacing edge-card, which plugged into an
edge-card socket that was soldered to the board in the bottom.
So... does this printer ring any bells?
-ethan
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Hi
It looks like to the best of knowledge, the 101 may have been
the first. What type of printer was that?
ISTR that there was also a 100 ?
The 101 was BIG. It was HEAVY. Substantially bigger and heavier than
Laserjet -. It was fast. It was LOUD!
But, it would fit into the back of a Civic hatchback. 
4:11 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, dwight elvey wrote:
Funny thing... last weekend, my 15-year-old son and I saw a bunch of
old computer equipment being evicted outside an office building. The
marshals were still hanging around, so no picking through the stuff
but, clearly visible in the pile was an old, very large, sound-proof-foam
lined printer enclosure. His "What's that?" resulted in a half-hour
conversation about old printers in general and how high speed dot-matrix
printers in particular could sound like a saw mill.
Bill
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Hi
Things seem to have drifted a little. It is the wire combination
that I'm interested in. I'm aware that the connector was there
before the printer.
It looks like to the best of knowledge, the 101 may have been
the first. What type of printer was that?
ISTR that there was also a 100 ?
The 101 was BIG. It was HEAVY. Substantially bigger and heavier than
Laserjet -. It was fast. It was LOUD!
5:31 p.m.
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, dwight elvey wrote:
It looks like to the best of knowledge, the 101 may
have been
the first. What type of printer was that?
http://www.piercefuller.com/collect/cent101/index.html
9:40 p.m.
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:31:08 -0800
From: cisin at xenosoft.com
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: The Centronics connector
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, dwight elvey wrote:
Hi
It looks similar to the 306 and most likely weights the same.
It is heavier than my 4si with duplex.
Dwight
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It looks like to the best of knowledge, the 101
may have been
the first. What type of printer was that?
http://www.piercefuller.com/collect/cent101/index.html
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