[Coco] Serial 4 pin din to serial printer

Juan Castro jccyc1965 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 3 19:14:20 EDT 2012


What's the printer's (I mean, Votrax's) connector? DB-9? DB-25? Maybe a
DriveWire cable (the version with pins 1 and 2 shorted) will work.

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Bill Loguidice <bill at armchairarcade.com>wrote:

> I finally got a working power supply for my Votrax Type N Talk, and was
> hoping to use it with the CoCo since it's apparently the easiest classic
> computer to get working with the speech synthesizer. The catch with getting
> any computer to work with the Votrax is to have the right cable wired up.
> Does anyone happen to have for sale or can point me to a serial 4 pin din
> to serial printer cable for the CoCo? Here's a reference:
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/20100122123525/http://werdav.tripod.com/txtospm1.html
>
> I can scan the actual Type N Talk manual if needed, since that has a bit
> more detail.
>
> Thanks for any help with this!
>
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