[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,
>
>-- 
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