The Centronics connector

[Fred Cisin]

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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Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com