[Coco] DLOAD

[Mike Pepe]

Frank Swygert wrote:
> It just dawned on me what the DLOAD/DLOADM commands were even made for! 
> Tandy had a classroom network controller used early in the CoCo's life 
> time! I had one for a while, sold it at a CoCoFest years ago. It was a 
> manual controller with one server and many slaves. The teacher (at the 
> server) would CSAVE a program (I think that's the command that was 
> used... might have been a DSAVE command??) and all the students would 
> type in DLOAD. Actually, the students would type the command first, then 
> the teacher would send the program to all at the same time. The network 
> controller also had the capability of singling out individual computers. 
> So the DLOAD command would wait until it received a signal, though I 
> don't know how long it would wait -- possibly until it received a 
> program or the computer was reset (I think the later is the case). An 
> individual student could send the teacher their program too -- the 
> teacher just had to manually switch to that student's computer and type 
> in DLO
> AD on the server.
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> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:57:28 -0800
> From: tlindner at macmess.org (tim lindner)
> 
>> 2.  It has a reputation as being somehow problematic, difficult to use,
>> or simply obscure and undocumented?
> 

Probably not. The DLOAD command operates with the serial port, whereas 
the device you're talking about works via the cassette interface.

-Mike