[coco] For Boisy or Mark ref Super Driver

Boisy G. Pitre boisy at boisypitre.com
Fri Sep 17 07:12:31 EDT 2004


On Sep 16, 2004, at 11:53 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:


> On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 15:09, alsplace at pobox.com wrote:

>> Depends on price, but I 100% plan to get DriveWire (hey, it's a cheap

>> CoCo/PC/Mac? shared file system -- sorta!), and of course I need the

>> KenTon.

>

> Speaking of DriveWire, a Palm PDA would make a nice disk drive for a

> Coco, particularly one with a flash card slot.


Hey, that's not a bad idea! It never occurred to me to write a Palm OS
based DriveWire server. That would be extremely cool.


> Writing something similar to be compatible with DriveWire would be a

> good excuse to dust my Coco off.

>

> Is the Drivewire protocol open or closed? That is, will someone give it

> to me so I don't have to fire up my serial protocol analyzer ;-)


The protocol is indeed open. You can go to the support section of
www.cloud9tech.com and there is a link to the DriveWire Protocol.

I say go for it.

Boisy




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