Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Cydrome Leader wrote:
Michael A. Terrell wrote:
wrote:
I'm assuming the part that looks like a mouth with teeth (contacts) inwards
is the female and the part that looks like a tongue with studs (contacts) on
it is male?
Centronics. Centronics was a manufacturer of mainframe printers who
decided to use a standardized interface on their products, and it spread
across the industry over time. The original connectors were AMP Blue
Ribbon series 36 contact. Now part of TE Connectivity.
It's actually a pretty nice connector. It's hard to break and reliable
enough. Anybody miss cutting apart printer cables to run though walls and
then having to resolder the DB25 side back on?
I never soldered them. I used a crimper to install pins for a new
DB25.
That reminds me of those white and red pin extractor tools. I just saw one
pop up not too long ago.