[Coco] The most bizarre thing

[Bill Pierce]

Or a modem and a printer?

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: George Ramsower <georgera at gvtc.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, May 15, 2013 11:46 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] The most bizarre thing


 Point made! Thanks, Bill.
 Now, if a person needed an interface to a MIDI and a printer, would he/she 
need another serial port?

George
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 10:30 PM
  Subject: Re: [Coco] The most bizarre thing



  There were a few midi interfaces designed to use the centronics parallel 
connector, but these were very rare. The standard Midi plug is a 5 pin DIN 
and only used 2 pins and a shield which was connected only at one end. To 
convert a Coco serial port to parallel then to Midi would have been a 
redundant bottleneck as the Coco serial could be directly connected to a 
midi input with just a modified cable and no hardware involved. The only 
reason to have done this would have been a dedicated hardware interface that 
had the centronics port instead of a midi port.... as I said... very 
rare.... and I doubt it.

  Bill Pierce
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  -----Original Message-----
  From: George Ramsower <georgera at gvtc.com>
  To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
  Sent: Wed, May 15, 2013 11:21 pm
  Subject: Re: [Coco] The most bizarre thing


  I'm wondering if this could have been a MIDI interface.
  If you got some disks with that computer, there would be some clues in 
those
  disks.

   George
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 4:23 PM
    Subject: Re: [Coco] The most bizarre thing


    the connectors dont appear in the photo but the back cable is the serial
  and the centronics at the end of the flat

    Sent from my iPhone

    On 2013-05-15, at 4:48 PM, "George Ramsower" <georgera at gvtc.com> wrote:

    > I've looked at all the photos and I have not found those connectors in
  any
    > of them. Maybe I missed something.
    > If it does connect to the Coco serial port, then it could be a way to
    > connect a Coco to another computer that is using the UART to translate
  the
    > data from the Coco's serial port to the computer that is connected to
  the
    > UART.
    >
    > Otherwise, it's still a bit of a mystery as how it's connected and 
used.
    >
    > George

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