[Coco] Coco to parallel printer

[Michael Furman]

Bill,

To connect a Coco to a printer with a 36-pin Centronics Parallel  
connector (which is what I assume you meant by a "regular" printer)  
you need a serial to parallel printer adapter.  These used to be  
common but are a lot harder to find now that everything uses USB.   
Pretty much any will do as long as it supports 600 or 1200 baud and  
hardware (DTR) flow control.  Here is an example, you should be able  
to find something cheaper elsewhere:

http://www.pccables.com/30200.htm


This one supports 1200 baud which will work:

http://www.provantage.com/aten-sxp320a~7ATEN02J.htm

Refer to pages 38 and 39 of the Coco1 Technical Reference  Manual for  
the printer settings and connection information (this is more complete  
than the Coco3 manual pp 313-314)
ftp://ftp.maltedmedia.com/coco/MANUALS1/TANDY_HW/COCO/COCO1/CoCo1TM.pdf

On Mar 13, 2009, at 5:19 AM, Bill wrote:

> Does anyone have an adapter to allow a Coco to print to a "regular"  
> printer?
>
> Thanks
>
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