Questions about the physical SIO connector

[UNIXcoffee928]

- What are the correct technical names & numbers of the male & female SIO connectors?

 

- Was this type of connector ever used on any other manufacturer's equipment, besides Atari, or was it strictly an Atari part?

 

 

Thanks.

[+bf2k+]

- What are the correct technical names & numbers of the male & female SIO connectors?

 

- Was this type of connector ever used on any other manufacturer's equipment, besides Atari, or was it strictly an Atari part?

 

 

Thanks.

 

Don't know but I used to buy them from Jameco.

[sloopy]

as far as i know, they were exclusive to the atari, and were never used anywhere else except the SIO. i used to see them listed in many catalogs as 13 Pin SIO, or Atari SIO connector M/F, and that was it, never anything beyond that...

 

 

sloopy.

[Bryan]

We need a late '70s Molex catalog to be sure, but I think they were an existing part that didn't end up being very popular.

[candle]

if they were exclusive, why some dot-matrix printers utilised them? (cannon? it was somewhere in this very forum - ah c0nsumer and sddrive nuxx thread!)

[Mathy]

Hello guys

 

A little bit off topic, but where does the name "Molex" come from?

 

sincerely

 

Mathy

[JohnBuell]

Hello guys

 

A little bit off topic, but where does the name "Molex" come from?

 

sincerely

 

Mathy

 

Molex is a company that manufactures a lot of different electronic connectors, etc. www.molex.com

Their corporate office is about a half hour away from my house, in Lisle, IL.

Hmm, maybe they'd let me check a library of old catalogs if they have them?

[OldAtarian]

if they were exclusive, why some dot-matrix printers utilised them? (cannon? it was somewhere in this very forum - ah c0nsumer and sddrive nuxx thread!)

 

Any printer you find with an SIO port on it is designed to be Atari compatible without using an interface. No other computer used it.

[kurtm]

if they were exclusive, why some dot-matrix printers utilised them? (cannon? it was somewhere in this very forum - ah c0nsumer and sddrive nuxx thread!)

 

Okidata.

 

They had these color printers with different communications modules. One for Atari, one for C64, etc.

 

I had pulled the Atari module from a dead Okidata printer I found some time ago. When c0nsumer started the project I sent him the board for the SIO ports.

 

--Kurt

Edited November 24, 2010 by kurtm