[Coco] Serial 4 pin din to serial printer

Bill Loguidice bill at armchairarcade.com
Sat Nov 3 19:57:52 EDT 2012


The Votrax has a 25 pin female serial port.

===================================================
Bill Loguidice, Managing Director; Armchair Arcade,
Inc.<http://www.armchairarcade.com>
===================================================
Authored Books<http://www.amazon.com/Bill-Loguidice/e/B001U7W3YS/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_1>and
Film <http://www.armchairarcade.com/film>; About me and other ways to get
in touch <http://about.me/billloguidice>
===================================================



On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Juan Castro <jccyc1965 at gmail.com> wrote:

> What's the printer's (I mean, Votrax's) connector? DB-9? DB-25? Maybe a
> DriveWire cable (the version with pins 1 and 2 shorted) will work.
>
> On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Bill Loguidice <bill at armchairarcade.com
> >wrote:
>
> > I finally got a working power supply for my Votrax Type N Talk, and was
> > hoping to use it with the CoCo since it's apparently the easiest classic
> > computer to get working with the speech synthesizer. The catch with
> getting
> > any computer to work with the Votrax is to have the right cable wired up.
> > Does anyone happen to have for sale or can point me to a serial 4 pin din
> > to serial printer cable for the CoCo? Here's a reference:
> >
> >
> http://web.archive.org/web/20100122123525/http://werdav.tripod.com/txtospm1.html
> >
> > I can scan the actual Type N Talk manual if needed, since that has a bit
> > more detail.
> >
> > Thanks for any help with this!
> >
> > ===================================================
> >  Bill Loguidice, Managing Director; Armchair Arcade,
> > Inc.<http://www.armchairarcade.com>
> > ===================================================
> > Authored Books<
> > http://www.amazon.com/Bill-Loguidice/e/B001U7W3YS/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_1>and
> > Film <http://www.armchairarcade.com/film>; About me and other ways to
> get
> > in touch <http://about.me/billloguidice>
> > ===================================================
> >
> > --
> > Coco mailing list
> > Coco at maltedmedia.com
> > http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
> >
>
> --
> Coco mailing list
> Coco at maltedmedia.com
> http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
>



More information about the Coco mailing list