Abstract: A cable terminal which connects two woven ribbon cables and has a terminal connector which is capable of engaging standard device connectors. A switch mounted in the cable terminal provides selective interconnection of the woven ribbon cables in the cable terminal which allows the channel to be fed back when the cable terminal is unplugged. The cable terminal can be employed in a tag cable for computer applications. The cable terminal utilizes a housing which can be disassembled for repair of conductive connections within the cable terminal. The cable terminal employs a PC board which provides two-sided termination with a separate connector for each signal wire to reduce termination time. Additionally, mass ground terminators are also provided to reduce termination time. Teeth are incorporated within the structure of the housing to engage the woven ribbon cable so as to provide strain relief between the woven ribbon cable and the PC board.

Abstract: A compression device which uses both run length encoding and statistical encoding. The run length encoding scheme uses a flag byte symbol which is disposed between a character signal and a run length symbol. The statistical encoding process uses multiple statistical encoding tables which are selected based upon previously occurring data.