[Coco] Model III bus pinout

[Willard Goosey]

>From: Ward Griffiths <wdg3rd at comcast.net>
>Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 17:50:11 -0500
>
>A customer of mine found that out the hard way when he plugged a Radio Shack 
>Daisy Wheel Printer II into the DB-25 video port of an AT&T 6300 (which 
>supplied something like 70 vdc to power the monitor).  Neither device worked 
>quite right afterwards.  Only reliable way ever discovered to destroy a 
>DWP-II.

A DB-25 video port?  Ick, you KNOW that's going to cause problems
exactly like you just described.

Some of those old printers were real tanks, weren't they?  Fast like a
tank.  Heavy like a tank.  Noisy like a tank. ;-)

Willard
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