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
