Timeline for 9-pin port for both RS-232 and Atari joystick?
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| Apr 26, 2017 at 13:48 | comment | added | Ken Gober | The Apple //c used full-size DIN ports for RS-232 (that was in 1984), perhaps that's what you're thinking of? RS-232 on the C64 was typically done via the user port (where the VICmodems plugged in, although you could also get 25-pin RS-232 ports that plugged in there as well). I suppose it's possible that someone made an RS-232 adapter that plugged into the user port that had DIN connectors rather than a DB25 but I've never seen one. | |
| Apr 26, 2017 at 12:57 | comment | added | JeremyP | But we also had DIN ports for actual RS-232 as well. | |
| Apr 26, 2017 at 12:50 | comment | added | Ken Gober | the 6-pin DIN port on the C64 was called a serial port, but it wasn't RS-232. It was actually a serialized version of the parallel IEEE-488 bus. This is what I was referring to as the IEC bus. | |
| Apr 26, 2017 at 8:28 | comment | added | JeremyP | Back in the 80's when I first came across RS232, it wasn't uncommon to use standard sized DIN plugs. The C64's serial port was one such, for example. | |
| Apr 24, 2017 at 19:21 | history | answered | Ken Gober | CC BY-SA 3.0 |