[Coco] The most bizarre thing

[Bill Pierce]

There were a few midi interfaces designed to use the centronics parallel connector, but these were very rare. The standard Midi plug is a 5 pin DIN and only used 2 pins and a shield which was connected only at one end. To convert a Coco serial port to parallel then to Midi would have been a redundant bottleneck as the Coco serial could be directly connected to a midi input with just a modified cable and no hardware involved. The only reason to have done this would have been a dedicated hardware interface that had the centronics port instead of a midi port.... as I said... very rare.... and I doubt it.

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-----Original Message-----
From: George Ramsower <georgera at gvtc.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, May 15, 2013 11:21 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] The most bizarre thing


I'm wondering if this could have been a MIDI interface.
If you got some disks with that computer, there would be some clues in those 
disks.

 George
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 4:23 PM
  Subject: Re: [Coco] The most bizarre thing


  the connectors dont appear in the photo but the back cable is the serial 
and the centronics at the end of the flat

  Sent from my iPhone

  On 2013-05-15, at 4:48 PM, "George Ramsower" <georgera at gvtc.com> wrote:

  > I've looked at all the photos and I have not found those connectors in 
any
  > of them. Maybe I missed something.
  > If it does connect to the Coco serial port, then it could be a way to
  > connect a Coco to another computer that is using the UART to translate 
the
  > data from the Coco's serial port to the computer that is connected to 
the
  > UART.
  >
  > Otherwise, it's still a bit of a mystery as how it's connected and used.
  >
  > George

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