[Coco] CoCo USB Flash drives/keyboard/mouse?

[Mark Marlette]

At 12:28 AM 12/10/2003 -0500, you wrote:

I have look into it a little bit....What I found out. Layered software 
approach much like managers, drivers and descriptors on the software end. 
That is the best part. Bad part is that each device would have to have a 
driver and descriptor. The support would be limited to that device until 
the next one was added...An endless job. Hardware is licensed and you pay 
to play. Id's are assigned to your device so that it can be reserved and 
detected proper, no one else steps on your ID. Now that is if  it is a new 
device. There might be ways around this since we would be just using other 
devices. I have looked in to USB analyzers. They would allow you to see the 
codes to/from the device and replicate the drivers. Cost of that tool is 
around $800.

I spent about 30minutes on this awhile ago so I could be off here. ???

Regards,

Mark
Cloud-9



>In a message dated 12/9/03 2:10:18 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>alsplace at pobox.com writes:
>
> > Question -- has anyone looked into the specs for supporting simple USB
> >  devices, such as a mouse/keyboard or flash drive?
>
>How about digital cameras?  On the Windows PC, they look like a file system,
>and Linux can allegedly deal with them too.  Set for the lowest resolution,
>the pix would be viewable on Roger's Projector-3.  --Mike K.
>
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