TRS-80 curiosity

Peter Cetinski pete at pski.net
Fri Apr 14 11:30:33 CDT 2017


> On Apr 14, 2017, at 11:15 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 14 Apr 2017, Peter Cetinski via cctalk wrote:
>> The EI expansion port was originally called the Screen Printer port because that was the only accessory that connected directly to the TRS-80 bus.
> 
> Originally.
> 
> Later, the Voice Output device (repackaged Votrax?) used the bus connector.
> Later, the Voice Input device used the bus connector.
> 

Correct, originally.  

Lot’s of 3rd party devices that connected to the bus appeared soon thereafter.  A few interesting ones I have other than the Voice Synthesizer and the Vox Box are an Exatron Stringy Floppy and a Cryptext hardware encryption device.



More information about the cctech mailing list