Strange and Possibly Wonderful Cable

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Fri Jan 4 21:29:29 2002

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Doc Shipley wrote:

> The 2 things I can't really identify are a Panasonic Easa-Phone,
> KX-T1225 which seems to be a speed-dialer of some sort. The other is a
> cable with a (Doc ducks & prepares to rub) 36-pin Centronics connector,
> plus eyelet ground, on one end and a female card-edge connector on the
> other. The shrouds are steel, squared, and embossed "TANDY" on both
> ends. While I've never seen one, I'm guessing it's a Tandy printer
> cable.

I bought about 6 similar cables about a year ago. They might be a later
version of the same cable. They don't have a metal shroud on the card-edge
end, but do on the 36-pin connector. If I remember correctly, they are for
Tandy 1000 machines. The only other Tandy machines that I can think of
that used a card-edge for a parallel port were the TRS-80 models 1, 3 and
4.

Btw, I was told that Tandy closed the Houston located Radio Shack Outlet
store. Does anyone here know if that's true? They were a good source for
old Tandy/TRS-80 cables, and I bought tons from them.

-Toth
Received on Fri Jan 04 2002 - 21:29:29 GMT