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The Radio Shack TRS-80 FP-215 (Cat. No. 26-9113) is a color plotter. "FP" stands for "Flatbed Plotter". The 215 debuted in fall 1982's RSC-8, p.24, advertised as being available later (Dec. 12, 1982) at an "affordable" price of $995. Which it was, in comparison to the Multi-Pen Plotter costing $1,995.
Since it was not a multi-pen plotter, it could only hold one pen at a time, and the user had to change the pen manually if he wanted to go from one color to another in mid-job.
Later catalogs explicitly mentioned Color Computer compatibility for CoCo printers, but at this early point, the catalog merely indirectly implied CoCo compatibility by mentioning that the FP-215 has an RS-232C serial interface along with the parallel interface.
Having said that, the FP-215 actually has a CoCo-style 4-pin DIN serial port, enabling CoCo owners to use the cheap ($4.95) CoCo serial cable (Catalog Number 26-3020), instead of having to use the more expensive ($19.95) 4-pin DIN to DB25 serial cable (Cat. No. 26-3014) required by earlier devices with industry-standard (that is, non-CoCo) 25-pin serial ports... devices like the "TandyGraph" TRS-80 Multi-Pen Plotter (26-1191). Although the FP-215 was capable of operating via the serial interface at 1200 baud, CoCo owners had to set the device's DIP switches for only 600 baud.[1]
Accessories
[edit | edit source]| Name | Cat. No. | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pen Black | 26-1343 | 3.95 | |
| Pen Red | 26-1344 | 3.95 | |
| Pen Blue | 26-1345 | 3.95 | |
| Pen Green | 26-1346 | 3.95 | |
| Dust Cover | 26-0523 | 5.95 | didn't appear until RSC-9 |
