[Coco] Serial 4 pin din to serial printer

[Juan Castro]

Hm. I'm looking at the TNT cable pinout from the docs you linked:

http://liveweb.archive.org/http://werdav.tripod.com/txvtf4.gif

Small correction to what I said below: don't short pins 1 and 2 on the CoCo
side. Instead, wire pin 1 to pins 6-8-20 which are shorted at the DB-25
side.

Once again, I'd like somebody else to cross-check. I used to know all about
this stuff circa 1984.

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Juan Castro <jccyc1965 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> http://www.frontiernet.net/~mmarlette/Cloud-9/Support/DriveWire%203%20Specification.pdf<http://www.frontiernet.net/%7Emmarlette/Cloud-9/Support/DriveWire%203%20Specification.pdf>gives you the basics, i.e., where TxD, RxD and GND have to be wired...
>
> ...but I think that's not complete. You may have to short pins 1 and 2 on
> the CoCo side (and pin 1 is carrier detect, not Vcc) and some other pins on
> the DB-25 side. IIRC, Pins 4-5 and pins 6-8-20.
>
> There are probably people in this list whose RS232-fu is better than mine.
> Help?
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Bill Loguidice <bill at armchairarcade.com>wrote:
>
>> The Votrax has a 25 pin female serial port.
>>
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>> 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!
>> > >
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