[Coco] [Color Computer] Coco serial cable
    Willard Goosey 
    goosey at virgo.sdc.org
       
    Fri Aug 28 00:05:44 EDT 2009
    
    
  
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:20:38AM -0700, shadow at shadowgard.com wrote:
> Digging thru boxes of old stuff I came across an odd CoCo serial 
> cable. I'm wondering if anybody knows what it was for. Here's the 
> pinout:
> 
So your pinout is:
1 CD     n/c
2 RD     6  DSR
3 GND    7  GND
4 TD     2  TD
         4-5  rts-cts
         8-20 cd-dtr
         11-18 unassigned-unassigned
So yeah, serial printer of some sort.  Pretty normal except the 11-18
tie.  That's something a little strange.
Willard
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Willard Goosey  goosey at sdc.org
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