[Coco] CoCoNet status

[George Ramsower]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Taylor"


> As of 12/6/08, the CoCoNet project is moving forward quickly:

>

> CoCoNet is a base system patched into Disk BASIC 1.1 that allows you to 

> mount virtual disks from your PC or the web (through the PC's connection), 

> and also copy files from the PC or the web and put them on 

> currently-mounted virtual disks.  There's no need to move back and forth 

> between the CoCo and PC.  The PC server software gives what the CoCo asks 

> for.

>



 I'm wondering if something like this could be made to handle OS-9 and use a 
PC to be the drive for the OS.

 This would be very nice to eliminate the need for a floppy or hard drive. 
Of course, I understand that OS-9 would  need a driver to deal with this.

 It wouldn't bother me a bit to make a coco a slave to a PC if the PC could 
act as a mass storage device with OS-9 as the OS for the coco.

 Of course, a new ROM would be in order to make the boot happen.

  Since my PC is almost always on, this could work for me.

 It would seem that even a CC One (64K) could benefit from this even if it 
did work a little slower. No disk drives at all !

George, dreaming.