[Coco] [Color Computer] Coco serial cable

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

----- "Stephen Castello" <zootzoot at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:48:35 +0000 (UTC), wdg3rd at comcast.net had a
> flock of green cheek conures squawk out:
> 
> >----- "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        wdg3rd at comcast.net
> 
> My dad had DMP-105, it looked just like the gorilla banana.

The DMP-105 was the successor to the LP-VII with a white case instead of Mercedes silver.  To the best of my knowledge, that was the only change.  Just as slow and noisy and just as crappy print.  (A dot-matrix impact printer with only one pin is sort of limited from the start).
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Ward Griffiths        wdg3rd at comcast.net