[Coco] Model III bus pinout

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 06 March 2006 17:50, Ward Griffiths wrote:
>On 03/06/2006 02:52 am, Willard Goosey wrote:
>> >From: "Bruce W. Calkins" <brucecalkins at bellsouth.net>
>> >Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 08:54:59 -0500
>> >
>> >Thank you, Willard,
>>
>> You're welcome.
>>
>> >This is the hard information needed.  I guess I better abort
>> > hooking things up "just because the connectors fit" ;)
>>
>> I learned that lesson when a friend of mine just about beat me up
>> for plugging an Atari joystick into a TI 99/4a's joystick port. 
>> (Both DB-9's, but completely different pinouts.)
>
>A customer of mine found that out the hard way when he plugged a Radio
> Shack Daisy Wheel Printer II into the DB-25 video port of an AT&T
> 6300 (which supplied something like 70 vdc to power the monitor). 
> Neither device worked quite right afterwards.  Only reliable way ever
> discovered to destroy a DWP-II.

Yup, those were tanks, rather like the xerox 1650-ro, which I have one 
of.  The xerox was the fastest daisey ever at 40 cps.

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>
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