CCJ connector

The CCJ connector (short for Camera Cable type J), also known as a J-type connector^: 62–63 or an EIAJ connector,^: 192 is the specification for a 10-pin DIN-style connector established by member companies of the Electronic Industries Association of Japan (EIAJ) in the late 1960s to interconnect various pieces of video camera equipment.^{: 192 : 149 : 193} Within Japanese-built video camera equipment built from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, the CCJ connector was especially widely used to connect video cameras to video tape recorders (VTRs), especially battery-powered portable VTRs—so-called portapacks—which were common before the dawn of camcorders, which married both the camera and the VTR.^{: 63 : 149 : 63–64}