Tony Duell said:
>
> But the Centronics parallel interface has nothing to do with SCSI, and
> thus calling a particular type of SCSI connector a 'centronics connector'
> is plain wrong. It's neither a Centronics interface nor even the same
> connector as one (the SCSI connector is the 50 pin version, the
> Centronics parallel printer interface uses the 36 pin one).
I often refer to these connectors as "centronics style". That way people know
what I mean, but I don't think it's technically wrong either... after all it
is a connector in the same "style" as the centronics printer connector :)
>
> -tony
- Dan Wright
(dtwright_at_uiuc.edu)
(
http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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Received on Thu May 23 2002 - 22:25:50 BST