[Coco] Coco serial cable (printers)

[Frank Swygert]

I didn't know the LP VIII and DMP-100 only had one pin.... one line of a 7-9 dot tall character at a time... man, that WOULD be SLOW!!! The DMP-105/106 were seven pin printers IIRC. Standard was a nine pin by then, but RS had to save some money somewhere!! I'm being sarcastic of course... you could by a Star or Gorilla 9 pin for little more than a DMP-105 or 106. Then you had to cobble your own serial cable (or buy one) or get a serial/parallel converter, whereas the 105/106 had the nice little round connector for the CoCo serial cable. 

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Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:47:46 -0400
From: Christian Lesage <hyperfrog at gmail.com>

wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:

> > The DMP-105 was the successor to the LP-VII with a white case instead of Mercedes silver.  To the best of my knowledge, that was the only change.  Just as slow and noisy and just as crappy print.  (A dot-matrix impact printer with only one pin is sort of limited from the start).
> >   
>   

Allow me to have my say in this incredibly popular thread!

The DMP printer that was the same as the Line Printer VII was the 
DMP-100, not the 105. I know, 'cause I bought a second-hand one in 1986 
or so, and it was crappy as hell. I remember writing at least three 

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