[Coco] The most bizarre thing

[camillus Blockx]

Or a interface to use the floppy drives from a comodore 64, they read
the disk in a serial format.

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Or a modem and a printer?
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Ramsower <georgera at gvtc.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wed, May 15, 2013 11:46 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] The most bizarre thing
>
>
>  Point made! Thanks, Bill.
>  Now, if a person needed an interface to a MIDI and a printer, would he/she
> need another serial port?
>
> George
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 10:30 PM
>   Subject: Re: [Coco] The most bizarre thing
>
>
>
>   There were a few midi interfaces designed to use the centronics parallel
> connector, but these were very rare. The standard Midi plug is a 5 pin DIN
> and only used 2 pins and a shield which was connected only at one end. To
> convert a Coco serial port to parallel then to Midi would have been a
> redundant bottleneck as the Coco serial could be directly connected to a
> midi input with just a modified cable and no hardware involved. The only
> reason to have done this would have been a dedicated hardware interface that
> had the centronics port instead of a midi port.... as I said... very
> rare.... and I doubt it.
>
>   Bill Pierce
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>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: George Ramsower <georgera at gvtc.com>
>   To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>   Sent: Wed, May 15, 2013 11:21 pm
>   Subject: Re: [Coco] The most bizarre thing
>
>
>   I'm wondering if this could have been a MIDI interface.
>   If you got some disks with that computer, there would be some clues in
> those
>   disks.
>
>    George
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 4:23 PM
>     Subject: Re: [Coco] The most bizarre thing
>
>
>     the connectors dont appear in the photo but the back cable is the serial
>   and the centronics at the end of the flat
>
>     Sent from my iPhone
>
>     On 2013-05-15, at 4:48 PM, "George Ramsower" <georgera at gvtc.com> wrote:
>
>     > I've looked at all the photos and I have not found those connectors in
>   any
>     > of them. Maybe I missed something.
>     > If it does connect to the Coco serial port, then it could be a way to
>     > connect a Coco to another computer that is using the UART to translate
>   the
>     > data from the Coco's serial port to the computer that is connected to
>   the
>     > UART.
>     >
>     > Otherwise, it's still a bit of a mystery as how it's connected and
> used.
>     >
>     > George
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