[Coco] Re: Why USB would be nice.

[Glen VanDenBiggelaar]

I will let the "experts" handle this more, but pluging in your camer just 
might kill your CoCo.
IF the USB COULD recognise the camera as a mass storage device, it Could 
never read the picture files on it. Most camera
use Jpeg or Tiff format, and IF the CoCo could read them, they would 
probably be way to big for the memory of the CoCo to handle and I don't 
think the CoCo can handle Jpeg or Tiff formats.
I could be wrong about this, but there are others far more educated in this 
then I am.

>I am iggernunt about USB and how it works..
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>I have several questions about USB for the coco...
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>The only OS I use on my cocos is OS-9(Level deux on the coco threes).
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>If I were to purchase the hypothetical USB card and the driver for OS-9, 
>would this do as I want or expect, such as.....
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>If  I plug my digital camera into the port,
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>Would I be able to see it as another drive and see and manipulate the files 
>in that camera? All I have in my OS is the driver that came with the USB 
>card.
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>I take out the camera, plug in a USB mouse, will I be able to read it's 
>ouput from Basic09? All I have in my OS is the driver that came with the 
>USB card.
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>If I connect a USB hub, connect both the camera and the USB mouse, how 
>would I write a Basic09 program to see the output of the mouse and at the 
>same time in another process, manipulate data in that camera? All I have is 
>the driver that came with the USB card.
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>If I then add (to that HUB) a USB box to plug flash cards or CF cards into, 
>would I be able to see that as a drive also? All I have is the driver that 
>came with the USB card.
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>How would I do a DIR command on the camera attached to the coco?
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>I have no clue how USB works or how this XP box can assign a drive to my 
>camera and show my printer as a printer or how it knows I've plugged in my 
>scanner.
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>How would I manage these things, with the driver that came with the USB 
>card for the coco?
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>Just curious,
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>George
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