Upon the date 09:52 PM 12/30/01 -0500, CLeyson_at_aol.com said something like:
>Fred Cisin wrote
>> In place of current accepted sloppy terminology,
>> how many remember what they were called THEN?
>
>Most of the engineers I work with have never heard of Amphenol or Cannon,
>let alone "blue range" or "red range" (popular Cannon connectors)
Sigh . . . They obviously never got into building their own designs and/or
never were of the tinkering/hobbyist or Amateur Radio types like more than
a few of us are on the list. That I feel an important attribute of an
engineer is being able to independently handle construction of a project
beginning with a concept through to final debug.
>
>It's a classic chicken and egg thing. Ampenol connectors were adopted as
>a "standard" connector for Centronics printer, IEEE-488 and SCSI interface,
>but are often mis-named. As I don't have an Amphenol catalogue to hand,
>I'm afraid I can't tell you what Amphenol's designation is for this connector.
Their designation for this family of connectors was "Micro Ribbon", a.k.a.
"57- Series" It's a denser version of their very good rack/panel
connectors, the "Blue Ribbon" line which appeared in the late 40's.
>
Regards, Chris
NNNN
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Received on Tue Jan 01 2002 - 11:04:19 GMT