[Coco] Usergroups / Hardware Hunt (was: Anyone got snow over there?)

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that David Roper may have mentioned these words:

>Currently, I'm short a printer

I have a Tandy DMP-{mumble} currently collecting dust - I don't know if 
it's old enough to have the CoCo serial 4-pin port on it, but if not I 
might be able to scare up a serial/parallel converter for it...

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Lemme go look.... .... ....

DMP 134 - negative on the serial port, so parallel is where it's at...

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Assuming slow-boat shipping to AussieLand isn't prohibitively expensive, 
it's up for grabs in a couple of weeks. (I have a 10 megameter round-trip 
business trip coming up in a couple of days; I won't have time for packing 
other than my clothing... and my T200. ;-)

>  and a 5.25 drive for my PC to enable transfers. I'd also like to add a 
> mouse and a cassette deck to the collection (I've got a large volume of 
> stuff on tape, and no way to load it!)

<MODE="evil bast^Hrascal">

Whaddya need a mouse for?

</MODE>

That said, does Australia use 50 or 60 Hz. main power? A lot of 5.25 drives 
of that vintage used the line frequency for rotational management, and 60 
Hz. drives would need to be adjusted for 50 Hz. use, if I'm not mistaken.

Darn - I guess the beer (and the amaretto, and the 10-year-old aged German 
plum schnapps - alcohol's the only thing that works on me for a headache, 
and I had a doozy today!) took it's toll on my braincells, as I didn't 
think voltages either... I can't remember if y'all use 120 or 240VAC - and 
google's too far & bedtime's too near for me to find out on my own... ;-)

Anyway, if you need anything, just holler!

This is alpha-bravo-eight-kilo-kilo signing off...
"Merch"

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