RangerG Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 The Spectravideo Robotarm is documented and there was a MSX adapter and one for the C64. I think this one is for the CoCo, but I am not sure. It has an Atari power supply but the interface fits the CoCo. Could there be another computer with the same sized cartridge? The book calls for using the cassette player (which I don’t have). Any information on this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDave Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 (edited) The coco and dragon are 40 pin like that.. Edited July 8, 2022 by MrDave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerG Posted July 8, 2022 Author Share Posted July 8, 2022 It does seem to be for the CoCo. I sold it to a member of the Facebook CoCo group and he plans to restore it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMaddog Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 Man, why couldn't Radio Shack sell an Armatron that connects to a CoCo? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr SQL Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 39 minutes ago, MrMaddog said: Man, why couldn't Radio Shack sell an Armatron that connects to a CoCo? I think they did, I remember seeing the Armatron at Radio Shack. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDave Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 Armatron would be hard to connect to coco. The controls were with pulleys and gears ! Nit switches. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMaddog Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 On 7/8/2022 at 12:12 PM, MrDave said: Armatron would be hard to connect to coco. The controls were with pulleys and gears ! Nit switches. Yeah, I remember taking it apart to see if I can find any switches or button contacts to hook wires leading into joystick/paddle ports. But it was all gears like you said. And Ma was not happy about it at all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted July 11, 2022 Share Posted July 11, 2022 I can recall seeing one or two published articles about interfacing a robot arm to the Coco (ca. 1984), but they were technically way above me and the details are long-gone. I have never seen the Robojet before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkO Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 On 7/8/2022 at 9:12 AM, MrDave said: Armatron would be hard to connect to coco. The controls were with pulleys and gears ! Nit switches. The Mobile Armatron would be much easier..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDave Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 The Coco was pretty friendly with it's cartridge port easily lets you do stuff the is a spare select line ( used by disk etc ) that is automatically decoded to $ff40- ff4f. Something.. So you don't need a ton of logic to work something on the cart. The scs line goes low for any pokes or pee ks there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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