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From: car@ramecs.UUCP (Chris Rende)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Plug 'N Power to CoCo interface
Message-ID: <260@ramecs.UUCP>
Date: 8 Oct 90 02:29:28 GMT
Organization: Larry L. Roy,Rochester MI,USA
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I have a Plug 'N Power (X10) to CoCo interface. I'd like to use the controller
with a non-CoCo computer; a PC, for example. However, I don't know how the
CoCo communicates with the controller. (I do know that it uses the serial
port).

Does anyone know:

- What baud rate it uses?
- What sequence of characters it recognizes as commands?

I'm hoping that it uses a standard serial makeup: 1 start bit, 7/8 data bits,
and 1 stop bit at a standard baud rate. If so then I can send it commands
from my PC.

The controller also comes with a cartridge for the CoCo... But I don't have
access to a CoCo to excercize the thing. :-(

car.
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