These workhorses are now reaching middle age, and as you’d expect, their ribbons are a little worse for wear after all this time. Replacements are cheap enough for the most common printers ...
Give your conscience a break by reusing your plastic fruit container to organize ribbons, yarn, threads, and other unruly supplies that can morph into a tangled mess. The ecological refrain is ...
In a PC, a 34-wire ribbon connects the floppy drive (if present) to the motherboard. A 40-wire cable connects the IDE (ATA) CD drive, and an 80-wire cable is used for the IDE (ATA) hard disks.