On 1/31/25 13:57, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote:
> 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.

Out in the field during the late 60s and 70s, I found that the
Dataproducts interface was more common than the Centronics.

--Chuck

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