10 Facts About Ribbon cables

Ribbon cables cable is a cable with many conducting wires running parallel to each other on the same flat plane.

Ribbon cables are usually seen for internal peripherals in computers, such as hard drives, CD drives and floppy drives.

Ribbon cables cable was invented in 1956 by Cicoil Corporation, a company based in Chatsworth, California.

Ribbon cables's engineers figured out how to use a new material, silicone rubber, to 'mold' a flat cable containing multiple conductors of the same size.

Early ribbon cables were used in the mainframe computer industry, on card readers, card punching machines, and tape machines.

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Subsequently, ribbon cables were manufactured by a number of different companies, including 3M.

The simplicity of the cables, their low profile, and low cost due to standardization, meant ribbon cables were long used in computers, printers, and many electronic devices.

Ribbon cables are usually specified by two numbers: the spacing or pitch of the conductors, and the number of conductors or ways.

Main point of ribbon cables is to allow mass termination to specially designed IDC connectors in which the ribbon cable is forced onto a row of sharp forked contacts.

Around 1980, the U S Federal Communications Commission discovered that ribbon cables were highly efficient antennas, broadcasting essentially random signals, or Electromagnetic interference, across a wide band of the electromagnetic spectrum.