[Color Computer][Coco] DLOAD mystery

Neil Morrison neilsmorr at hotpop.com
Wed Mar 8 01:52:16 EST 2006


AFAIK, that was done via the cassette port(s). The teacher could CSAVE to 
all the computers, or CLOAD from one of them. I don't recall the DLOAD 
command ever being used or supported.

Neil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George's Coco Address" <yahoo at dvdplayersonly.com>


> The way I understood the original intention of DLOAD was to get an 
> exectutable from a host computer in a classroom. At the time, it was 
> appointed by the "teacher" to "Download NOW" to the individual 
> student(user).  It was done this way because the "teacher" had a 
> mechanical selector switch to pick which student was to download from the 
> host computer.
>
> This download would then execute, then communicate with the host to get 
> whatever instructions were required.. Once the application was loaded and 
> running, the teacher would then select another student and instruct that 
> one to "DLOAD".
>
> That's the way I remember it..




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