[Coco] Re: CoCo to Apple //e serial card NULL MODEM

[Rodney V Hamilton]

In article <200312261653.41899.wdg3rd at comcast.net>, Ward Griffiths says...
>
>On Saturday 20 December 2003 01:36 am, Perry M Dueck wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> 1. Where would one locate the round 4 pin DIN connector male plugs
>> which one would use to construct a CoCo serial cable? Seems Radio
>> Shack no longer stocks them/sells them just from browsing their
>> catalog and looking around in their stores.
>
>Radio Shack _never_ sold those connectors.  When I built the first (and 
>probably last) OS-9 timesharing system displayed in an RSCC (the Level 
>One manual had all those neat hints that it could be done, so I did 
>it), I cut and spliced Coco printer cables to make a null-modem between 
>the 64k and 16k machines I used).
>-- 
>Ward Griffiths

Not for a long time, but not NEVER.  It was catalog #274-007,
a 4 PIN DIN PLUG in an ARCHER bubble pack for $1.49.
They are indeed difficult to find now - you rarely see anything
less than DIN5 anymore in the parts catalogs.

An alternative would be to find the serial cable for a LINE PRINTER VII
or another RADIO SHACK serial printer that had a 4-pin DIN socket.

-- 
Rodney Hamilton, Fern Park FL