[Coco] CoCo Serial to Parallel

[Chad H]

Actually just did a e-ebay/net search and came across one "possible"
candidate. It's a Tandy Radio Shack part number 26-2829 converter...but I
don't know if it has the proper connections.  I remember Tandy had used a
non-standard centronics parallel connector at one time.
- Chad

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From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Chad H
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:22 AM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: [Coco] CoCo Serial to Parallel

Have been getting rid of some old Tandy dot-matrix printers lately.tired of
the racket and can't find ribbons  (They were jamming half the time
anyways). 

I do however still have a old HP DeskJet 540 and DeskJet 550c stored up in
perfect working order.  I held onto these because I knew they would print
directly from true MS-DOS (something modern printers won't do) and I can
still get ink for cheap for them.  I think there used to be some sort of
CoCo serial to parallel convertor that would enable one to print from CoCo
to a printer such as these, but I can't seem to find one.  Does anyone know
where I might be able to obtain one?

 

-          Chad


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