"centronics" connectors

[9000 VAX]

On 11/9/06, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> > Why do folks insist on calling this type of connector "Centronics"?
> > I've even hear the "C" word applied to HPIB connectors.  Centronics
> > never used the 50 pin version, did they?
> > I've heard them called Amphenol, CHAMP, telco, PBX and RJ21X
> > connectors as well as "Blue Ribbon" (shows my age).  But why
> > "Centronics"?
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> For many people who had never seen a computer until 1979 (TRS-80),
> Centronics printers were the first places that they saw them.
> Although business telephone systems had been using them for multi-line
> phones for quite a while, "Only technicians" ever connected or
> disconnected those.


I used this term because everybody on ebay used it. I met it when I was
searching for SCSI cables on ebay for my 3900.

vax, 9000

Might as well ask why ALL D shell connectors are referred to as size B.
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