[Coco] Coco serial cable (printers)

[Bill Barnes]

--- On Mon, 8/31/09, Bruce W. Calkins <brucewcalkins at charter.net> wrote:

> From: Bruce W. Calkins <brucewcalkins at charter.net>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco serial cable (printers)
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Date: Monday, August 31, 2009, 3:18 PM
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Frank Swygert"
> 
> > I didn't know the LP VIII and DMP-100 only had one
> pin....
> 
> I recall that one of those printers had a star platen and
> one hammer.  The position of the platen at the time of
> the hammer strike determined the row of the dot.
> 
> 
> 
> Bruce W.
> 

They called it a unihammer  or something like that on the Gorilla. When I ordered my Gorilla long ago now, it was already set up for serial, I just had to tell the CoCo to speed up the data rate sending to it.