There is a slot on the back of my two controller 5200 on the opposite side where the power and av cables are connected. Is this some kind of expansion port?
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5200 expansion port?
Started by bradhig, Dec 28 2011 8:32 PM
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Allan
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Posted Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:30 PM
bradhig, on Wed Dec 28, 2011 8:32 PM, said:
There is a slot on the back of my two controller 5200 on the opposite side where the power and av cables are connected. Is this some kind of expansion port?
Yes. It's basicly an SIO port like on the 8-bit computers which use it to communicate to disk drives, printers, etc. Nothing was ever done with it. They were thinking of adding a computer keyboard and a music keyboard but they never happened.
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Posted Wed Dec 28, 2011 10:50 PM
Kind of a shame they didn't, but it probably didn't make sense when the 8-bit line was going strong.
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Posted Thu Dec 29, 2011 8:12 AM
There command line is missing, so only datasette can be connected, or Supercharger thru 2600 module.
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Posted Thu Dec 29, 2011 5:07 PM
Yes they should of done something with that port.
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