[Coco] Serial 4 pin din to serial printer

[Juan Castro]

http://www.frontiernet.net/~mmarlette/Cloud-9/Support/DriveWire%203%20Specification.pdfgives
you the basics, i.e., where TxD, RxD and GND have to be wired...

...but I think that's not complete. You may have to short pins 1 and 2 on
the CoCo side (and pin 1 is carrier detect, not Vcc) and some other pins on
the DB-25 side. IIRC, Pins 4-5 and pins 6-8-20.

There are probably people in this list whose RS232-fu is better than mine.
Help?

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Bill Loguidice <bill at armchairarcade.com>wrote:

> The Votrax has a 25 pin female serial port.
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> On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Juan Castro <jccyc1965 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What's the printer's (I mean, Votrax's) connector? DB-9? DB-25? Maybe a
> > DriveWire cable (the version with pins 1 and 2 shorted) will work.
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Bill Loguidice <bill at armchairarcade.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > I finally got a working power supply for my Votrax Type N Talk, and was
> > > hoping to use it with the CoCo since it's apparently the easiest
> classic
> > > computer to get working with the speech synthesizer. The catch with
> > getting
> > > any computer to work with the Votrax is to have the right cable wired
> up.
> > > Does anyone happen to have for sale or can point me to a serial 4 pin
> din
> > > to serial printer cable for the CoCo? Here's a reference:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://web.archive.org/web/20100122123525/http://werdav.tripod.com/txtospm1.html
> > >
> > > I can scan the actual Type N Talk manual if needed, since that has a
> bit
> > > more detail.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help with this!
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