Another pet gripe of mine is calling the old 50-way SCSI/etc. connector
a "Centronics" connector,regardless of application or number of
connections.
I prefer to refer to them as "blue ribbon" connectors, developed by
Amphenol in 1950 and used extensively in commercial telephone systems
long before Centronics or SCSI.
I've always called them Amphenol connectors, although strictly speaking
Amphenol made more than one design.
On Sat, 1 Feb 2025, Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk wrote:
Actually, in 1971 they were originally marked A-MP, which stood for
Aero-MarineProducts.
And as far as the statement that Epson standarised the Centronics connector
goes, I say 'hogwash' - it was being used by Centronics many years before
Epson came on to the market. I was servicing teh Centronics 101, 103 and
306 back in 1975, including making cables to hook them up to PDP11s. I
Centronics had already STANDARDIZED the connector, but Epson made it known
to the general public.
I loved the 101.
When I retired mine, I tried unsuccessfully to get $25 each at swaps. So,
I donated them to a community colege that was desperate for sturdier more
rugged printers for their lab, and took $1000 each tax deduction.
