36 pin Centronics Connectors

I bought some of each kind from Digikey about 5 years ago. First, unless somebody does it for you, you need to go to a connector manufacturer's web site an come up with a part number. I would try Amphenol first. Centronics was the user, not the manufacturer.

Tam

Go to Digikey and search [connector] then select the [Parallel Interface / Centronics] choice. All on this page:

I believe that AMP's name for these is "Champ". The 50 pin version is common in telephone equipment and the 36 pin was used for some printers (like Centronics). IIRC, a smaller one is used for test equipment that are equipped with the GPIB bus.

Bob

Centronics is just a long gone printer manufacturer. The connector originally was an Amphenol 57 Series Micro-Ribbon connector. (I dug out an old Anadex printer manual and they called out a 57-30360 plug). Those were/are solder-cup (you really don't want to go there) or PCB tail style connectors. Other compatible Amphenol parts were the 157 Micro-pierce (IDC wire) and 850-57 (IDC flat cable) series. Or a zillion other manufacturers. I usually hacked around with T&B Ansley flat cable connectors, because one squish of the cable beats the heck out of soldering 36 wires into the back of the connector.

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Didn't the HP-IP also use these or similar (maybe 50-pin vs 36?)

Thanks, Rich

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HP-IB. duh.

Yes, 24 pin. (I actually paid a lot of money for a copy of IEEE-488 that I never used, until now). It names Micro-Ribbon from Amphenol or Cinch, or Champ from AMP.

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