Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk> writes:
> [IEEE488/centronics/whatever connectors]
> >From the HP-97S user manual (I have one on loan for a demonstration in a
> few weeks...)
>
> 'Your peripheral device is connected to the HP-97S interface with a
> standard 25-pair telephone connector (Amphenol 57-30500 or equivalent)'
Ah. Yes, we used to call the 50-pin version a telephone or telco
connector because, well, that's where we used to find most of them:
going to a 5-line office phone, or on the side of a punch-block.
But HP-IB and Centronics printer connectors didn't have enough pins to
be called telco connectors. Besides, HP-IB used bigger, stackable
screws, and Centronics printer connectors had those ears. It wasn't
'til I saw the 50-pin Centronicsish SCSI connector that I started to
get confused.
-Frank McConnell
Received on Fri Aug 22 1997 - 16:39:57 BST