[Coco] Thought

[Jim Cox]

How about USB networking with a PC along the same lines as 
the DriveWire from Cloud 9?

A USB hard drive would be nice (I may be misinterpreting 
what you said about the CoCo being deivice only, can you 
clarify?)

Jim

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:42:25 +1000
  Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at optushome.com.au> wrote:

>Hi Guys,

>

>I haven't been a subscriber to this mailing list for 

>long, but it seems there's quite a bit of interest in 

>various types of 'connectivity adapters' for the CoCo. 

>There also appears to be an impressive amount of hardware 

>development still going on for such conectors and other 

>CoCo Peripherals.

>

>A while back I developed a small USB 'prototype' board 

>for a couple of my other projects. Since then I have had 

>the idea of using it to connect to the TRS-80 (1/3/4) 

>floppy drive connector and allow the PC to 'serve' 

>virtual disk images for a real trash-80.

>

>[An aside - have you guys seen 

>this...<http://www.rothfus.com/SVD/>]

>

>Anyway, recently I've been toying with the idea of 

>supporting the CoCo as well. Is there any interest for 

>this type of device?

>

>Also, anyone got any novel ideas for using a USB 

>connection on a CoCo (the USB side of things is strictly 

>device-only - it can't be used to connect other USB 

>peripherals to the CoCo for example)? e.g. Another idea I 

>had was using it to emulate a network adapter for the 

>trash...

>

>Regards,

>

>-- 

>|              Mark McDougall                | 

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>

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