[Coco] CoCo-to-PC Serial Cable diagram

[jmlaw at iprimus.com.au]

Ah whoops :D

I had two emails from Roger, one from the mailing list and one from his email.
I replied to the wrong one, sorry about that :)


>-- Original Message --
>Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:44:17 -0600
>To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>From: Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com>
>Subject: [Coco] CoCo-to-PC Serial Cable diagram
>Reply-To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>
>
>
>Compliments from me, here is a diagram showing how to build a 
>CoCo-to-PC cable using an affordable cable from 
>CableWholesale.com.  It's a female-to-female cable you can cut in the 
>middle to make two cables, but if their one-ended cable has the same 
>color coding, you can use it instead.  I cut mine to get two cables 3 
>feet each.  They sell 10 and 25ft versions as well in the female-female
model.
>I'll have to search my records for where I bought my lot of CoCo DIN 
>plugs.  I have a lot of these if anybody wants to save some time and 
>just get them from me.
>
>You have 3 wires to solder to the DIN plug, and 2 sets of wires to 
>connect together to force PC handshaking.  I tuck those wires down so 
>the DIN plug casing slides up over them.  First solder and seal them, 
>of course.  You can probably think of another way of doing this, but 
>you can't get inside the DB9 end of these cables, so this is the 
>method I chose and it works well.
>
>I'm making a few cables now for overdue orders but I doubt I'll have 
>time to make any new ones until I get caught up on the Drive Pak 
>orders.  However, I have plenty of the DB9 cables and DIN plugs available.
>
>Let me know if you see any problems, as I drew this from looking at 
>my own cable.  I can't find my cheat sheet right now so I just made 
>another one with color coding for the cable (10D1-034xx) where xx is 
>the feet (01, 03, 06, 10, 25).
>
>Have fun,
>Roger Taylor
>
>Attachment: coco_to_pc_cable.gif
>
>-- 
>~ Roger Taylor
>
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