[Coco] SitePlayer Telnet
Boisy Pitre
boisy at boisypitre.com
Tue Aug 1 11:29:03 EDT 2006
Andrew,
I'm glad you brought this up. I was browsing through a Nuts & Volts
magazine this weekend at Barnes & Noble and saw an ad for this same
device. It certainly warrants some investigating.
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On Aug 1, 2006, at 10:27 AM, Andrew wrote:
> All,
>
> Has anyone ever tried one of these (or anything similar) with the
> CoCo?:
>
> http://www.siteplayer.com/telnet/index.html
>
> It seems like it is a serial<->ethernet proxy server in a very
> small (and fairly inexpensive) package - the OEM version starts at
> $29.95, but the most likely version to use is the assembled
> "SitePlayer Telnet System", which is $79.95 and has all the parts
> (carrier board, etc) for actually hooking up to serial, ethernet,
> and power ports.
>
> I was just looking at this device as a possible way to get the CoCo
> "on the net", and was wondering what people thought. It certainly
> isn't a proper NIC and TCP/IP stack (which I am sure we all want),
> but it might be a nice stopgap system (maybe no worse than a serial
> cable to a PC running proxy software - although that solution might
> be cheaper).
>
> -- Andrew L. Ayers
> Glendale (Phoenix), Arizona
>
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