[Coco] POSSIBLE Solutions For RS-232 Problem

[Ken Flanagan]

I remember having to do the cable swap back in the day. I was using the
Disto (I think) RS-232 pack.

On Feb 22, 2018 9:49 AM, "Allen Huffman" <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> > On Feb 22, 2018, at 11:23 AM, RETRO Innovations <go4retro at go4retro.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >   It looks like there are a few concerns with the RS232 Pak:
> ...
> >   [1]http://users.axess.com/twilight/sock/rs232.html
>
> What’s interesting is that I don’t recall having any issues with the
> RS-232 pak back then. We did our driver/cable modes to enable faster
> throughput in OS-9 as modems added MNP5 error correction, etc.
>
> Looking at it now, it looks useless. But I think the difference was modems
> provided all these signals to make things work, while modern stuff doesn’t.
> Heck, even RS-232 paks that came after the Tandy version left things out.
> The CoCoPRO! pak manual was very telling - explaining a lot about the
> issues, and what they left out.
>
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