[Coco] Drivewire question

[Boisy Pitre]

The DriveWire spec is currently geared towards the CoCo, but it  
obviously shares some common features that could benefit other  
systems.  I'm not opposed to having the standard extend outside of the  
scope of the CoCo, but I really don't use any other retro system at  
the moment.

On Apr 20, 2009, at 8:00 AM, John W. Linville wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 02:37:46AM -0600, Willard Goosey wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 08:02:41AM +0100, Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
>>> I have a feeling that there are many retro systems that could  
>>> benifit
>>> from something like drivewire.
>>
>> Many retro systems have drivewire-like things.
>>
>> Four off the top of my head:  FLEX, Coleco ADAM, C64, and HP 9845.
>
> The Atari 8-bit as well.  Though in the case of the Atari and the C64
> I think there is some hardware involved so that the server/hardware
> combination pretends to be one of their "intelligent" floppy disks.
>
> John
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