[Coco] Source for CoCo cassette cable, or components to build one?

Christopher Barnett Fox cbfox01 at syr.edu
Mon Feb 9 15:25:31 EST 2015


My soldering skills are rusty, but I think I could manage a cable. If it's
cheaper to buy the pre-made cable rather than source just enough parts to
construct one, though, I'd probably go pre-made. The exchange rate and
shipping from the UK to the US means the total cost of the Retro cable is
$21.

On 2015/02/09/, 3:17 PM, "Al Hartman" <alhartman6 at optonline.net> wrote:

>I bought one of those too. Works great!
>
>If you can solder, they aren't hard to make.
>
>-[ Al ]-
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: spereira1952 at comcast.net
>
>I purchased one on eBay, from the Retro Computer Shack:
>www.retrocomputershack.com
>
>IIRC, he advertises the cable for Dragon computers, but they are
>completely 
>compatible with CoCo.
>
>Nice, high quality stuff. Recommended.
>
>smp
>
>----- Original Message -----
>
>From: "Christopher Barnett Fox" <cbfox01 at syr.edu>
>
>I have a CoCo cassette cable I purchased off eBay for the purposes of
>loading HDB-DOS by "cassette" for DriveWire, but it's unidirectional. I
>can load audio files from a connected source, but can't save.
>
>Is there a source for the full cable, with in/out/remote, or a good list
>of required components and source to build one?
>
>Just trying to maintain as much flexibility as possible dealing with files
>for my growing collection of CoCos.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Christopher 
>
>
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