[Coco] NON-GAME Coco cartridges

[Kandur]

My house was wired for 4 terminals on 2 floors.
The 2 kid's had a terminal in their rooms, my wife and the recroom had 1 each.
The Coco had a 1200 baud dialup internet connection, that we all shared.
There was a clever program, that attached or detached the terminals, 
when a certain function key was struck. Alas I forgot it's name.
Art, I loved your ADOS, still have the E-prom, but lost the dikette. (:

Kandur

Sunday, June 8, 2014, 3:59:56 PM, you wrote:
> 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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