[Coco] NON-GAME Coco cartridges

[Arthur Flexser]

Actually, I was wondering why one would want or need 4 RS232 ports, and a
multi-line BBS was all I could think of.  Though I suppose one port could
be for the printer as an alternative to the bit-banger, though the
advantage of that seems marginal, apart from saving the cost of a
serial-to-parallel adapter.

Art


On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Kandur <k at qdv.pw> wrote:

> Made by Coco Devices.
> Changed the picture, look again.
> http://qdv.pw/eng/_photos/Computers/Coco/COCO%20COMM-4.jpg
>
> HotCoCo-1986-02.pdf
> "On the hardware front. there are some intriguing
> new products for use on a BBS or a
> term inal. CoCo Devices has released a communications
> serial port called COMM-4 . It
> supports four channels of serial I/O and can
> be expanded to eight. Running under OS-9.
> this would make for a very interesting eightchannel
> BBS . (I don't even want to think
> about the installation fees for eight new phone lines!)"
>
> Kandur
>
> Sunday, June 8, 2014, 3:02:28 PM, you wrote:
> > So who made it?  The image seems to cut off in
> > the middle, with no company
> > listed.
>
> > Art
>
>
> > On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Kandur <k at qdv.pw> wrote:
>
> >> Mine must be this one, it wasn't cheap then! :)
>
> >> If I remember correctly, the 2 RCA connectors were used for interrupts.
> >> http://qdv.pw/eng/_photos/Computers/Coco/COCO%20COMM-4.jpg
>
> >> Kandur
>
> >> Sunday, June 8, 2014, 11:06:20 AM, you wrote:
> >> > Your pack seems to be the equivalent of four
> >> > different RS-232 Paks, and
> >> > contains four 6551 ACIA chips.  The Marty
> >> > Goodman CoCoPro one is equivalent
> >> > to just a single RS-232 Pak and contains a single 6551 chip..
>
> >> > Art
>
>
> >> > On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Kandur <k at qdv.pw> wrote:
>
> >> >> As I have mentioned in my intro, fortunately
> >> >> kept most of my NON-GAME Coco cartridges,
> >> >> when I had to part from my computer gear.
>
> >> >> My first question is, which RS-232 pack is mine?
> >> >>
> http://qdv.pw/eng/_photos/Computers/Coco/cartridges/Serial/index.html
> >> >> Is it the famous CoCoPro! RS232 Pak by Marty Goodman?
>
> >> >>
> >>
> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Manuals/Hardware/RS232%20Pak%20%28CoCoPro!%29.pdf
> >> >> I'm in the process to upload the photos of my other NON-GAME Coco
> >> >> cartridges.
>
> >> >> Kandur
>
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