[Coco] [Color Computer] Coco serial cable

Bruce W. Calkins brucewcalkins at charter.net
Thu Aug 27 17:39:38 EDT 2009


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <wdg3rd at comcast.net>
> ----- "Wayne Campbell" <asa.rand at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I had a gorilla banana. That's the printer I used to print out the
>> source code to DCom. It worked very well for a dot-matrix printer. I
>> bookmarked the page so I can show it to people who disbelieve. LOL
>
> As I recall, the Gorilla Banana was essentially the same hardware base as 
> the Radio Shack Line Printer VII, but with a DB-25 instead of a DIN 
> connector and probably a different ROM.
> -- 
> Ward Griffiths
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When one ordered their printer from DAK you had to specify if you wanted the 
serial version.  They included the serial ROM in your order for free, but 
you had to change it yourself.  they also provided the pin outs for making 
your own cable, or they would sell you one.

Bruce W. 




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