Nomenclature (was: NEXT Color Printer find

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Mon Dec 31 02:27:27 2001

There are plenty of folks who think collectors of old computer hardware are
odd. One oddity I'd like to see adopted is a dedication to correctness in
detail. Where the language used in our society is rapidly heading for the
point at which everyone will only be taught a single syllable, leaving
inflections to communicate whatever little meaning there is, I'd suggest we,
at least, take it upon ourselves to learn and use the correct terminology,
painful as it may be.

more below, BTW.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 1:57 AM
Subject: Nomenclature (was: NEXT Color Printer find


> On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Don Maslin wrote:
> > Tony is correct.
> > Regrettably, Jameco has fallen into the bastardization/mongrelization of
> > the language. Looking at a page of a 1962 Allied Radio catalog, I see
> > listings and illustrations of the Amphenol "Blue Ribbon" connectors in
> > sizes running from 8-32 contacts. They obviously derived their name
> > from the blue Diallyl phthalate dielectric that carried the ribbon-like
> > contacts.
>
> Don provides a hint to the correct approach.
> Invoke the 10 year rule.
>
> In place of current accepted sloppy terminology,
> how many remember what they were called THEN?
>
A lot of this nomenclature problem came about when folks started referring
to the DB25 (and it is a 'B' shell) as an "RS232" connector.

IIRC, both the 'D' subminitature connectors, e.g. DE9, DA15, DB25, DC37,
DD50 ... and the "Blue-Ribbon" series were Amphenol products, the patent on
which expired in the late '70's. Consequently the trade names became
muddled in various competitors' nomenclature. If somebody has kept old
Cramer, Newark, Allied, and other catalogs of the late '60's and early
'70's, (which I haven't) the nomenclature should be much clearer there.
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