CoCo 5 Ports,Slots and Switches
The CoCo5 system housed in case almost identical to coco 3 case has a few extra ports and some ports/switches that
have different functions although they superfically look the same.
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Click below the down arrows
to see the details of each CoCo 5 Port.
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Provides PC Standard Floppy/IDE Hard Drive power levels.
Standard ON/OFF Switch.
Uper Left 8-Bit Coco Joystick Port.
The alternate version has a DB-15 Port
that may be split into two Atari Joystick Ports.
The Ports Shown are Mini DIN-5 versions of the 8-Bit Coco Joystick Port.
Uper Right 8-Bit Coco Joystick Port.
This Port is Plugin Compatable with Bit Banger Cables and is driven the same way
115.2 kb/s in standard mode 230.4 kb/s in Turbo Mode
and 460.8 kb/s with special cable.
Standard Drivewire Mode 460.8 kb/s.
Turbo mode 921.6 kb/s .
Standard Cassette Mode 1500 bps, Turbo rate 6 kb/s.
Audio Digitizer can Capture 10 bit sterio audio at 48 kb/sec.
(Not quite CD quality sound but very respectable)
In this picture the -Advanced Adapter Slot has no card
installed and the included cover is off.
Possible Cards:
RGB Video Out
HDMI Video Out
Composite Video In
Ethernet
This switch determines if the computer will boot in CoCo3 or CoCo4 mode
on the next power up or equivalent.
Just the same as Composite out on a Coco 3.
For a VGA or SVGA monitor up to 1280x800.
(1280x720 maximum displayed resolution)
3.5 mm Sterio Out Jack
Attanced to the "Mixer." component.
USB 1.1 Port on underside attached comes out at the back and can be cliped here for strain relief.
Two supported functions:- Firmware update cable
- USB Mouse
Just the same as Composite out on a Coco 3 except
- Handeled by CPU #0
- Soft Resets only the CoCo in Focus.
- Special functions defined by CPU #0
Two Stacked Standard Coco Cartridge Ports
are located on the Right Side.
The Stacked Coco Cartridge Slots and an
Internal Coco Cartridge Slot can be assigned to specific CPU's
or assigned to a "Virtual Multipack" which can then be assigned to a CPU.
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