[Coco] Re: Why USB would be nice.

[George Ramsower]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glen VanDenBiggelaar"

<snippy, snippity>

>
> I will let the "experts" handle this more, but pluging in your camer just 
> might kill your CoCo.

Aw, heck!

 Kill it?

 Crash maybe. But dont' even talk about KILLING my Coco!!
<grin>

 I'm, sorry, I didn't specify what the files are.
 OS9 is great at moving data. I wasn't trying to interpret them, just 
manipulating them.

 ie.. COPY, DEL, RENAM... etc..




>>I am iggernunt about USB and how it works..
>>
>>I have several questions about USB for the coco...
>>
>>The only OS I use on my cocos is OS-9(Level deux on the coco threes).
>>
>>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.....
>>
>>If  I plug my digital camera into the port,
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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.
>>
>>How would I do a DIR command on the camera attached to the coco?
>>
>>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.
>>
>>How would I manage these things, with the driver that came with the USB 
>>card for the coco?
>>
>>Just curious,
>>
>>George
>>
>>