[Coco] Help, a tale of 2 coco's

[Bill Pierce]

The original Coco 1s had a different cable. It actually had a connector o the ribbon cable end where as later, they went to the straight "plug the ribbon cable into the slot" format that persisted through the Coco 3.
So, if you have one of the Coco 1s that has a connector on the end of the cable, the Coco 2 cable will require an adapter (RS used to sell them).
My Coco 1 has such a cable and cannot be switched with my Coco 2 without an adapter (which I don't have).
The Coco 1 connector has the ribbon cable entering into the "front" of a black conntector which plugs into the socket on the motherboard. In the Coco 2, the ribbon cable enters the motherboard (with no connector of the ribbon cable) through the top of the motherboard connector. You just pull it straight up (carefully) and it will come out.
If the Coco 1 cable connection looks the same as the Coco 2 cable connection, then pull it straight up. If not, it most likely has the connector.
 

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Nov 12, 2014 11:03 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] Help, a tale of 2  coco's


The keyboard cable?  It just pulls out of the connector on the ones I’ve seen.

- Ed


> On Nov 12, 2014, at 9:13 AM, abqpenmaster <abqpenmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
>   I would like to ask your help.  How do you remove the ribbon cable on coco 1 
& 2's?  We use 18 pin ribbon connectors at work,  but these coco connectors 
don't seem to release the same way.  
>   I have a white coco 1 with half the keys don't work.  I also have a coco2 
with a good low profile keyboard I would like to just swap,  unless there is a 
better way? 
> 
> Thanks, 
>   Sean R 
> 
> Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
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