On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> The first parallel printers might have been Centronics. Hence the > interface and blue ribbon connector being called "Centronics parallel" The first printer that Radio Shack/Tandy sold for the TRS-80 (at least in the UK) -- the 'TRS-80 Line Printer' (it was nothng of the sort, of course) -- was a rebadged Cantronics with the obvious parallel interface. I have the Centronics version here and repair it using the Radio Shack service manual. -tony
