[Coco] CocoNet ROM on eBay

[Frank Pittel]

I thought the big selling point Roger made was that coconet was wireless and initially was faster then drivewire.
With my Coco setup only a few feet from the drivewire server so the wireless feature never mattered to me so I
never bothered getting one. Since I had a superide with drivewire eeprom in the flash I had no need.

For the record I never used coconet and have never seen it used. As a result I have no oprinion of it either good
or bad.

The Other Frank


On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 12:28:33PM -0400, Bill wrote:
> Well, if DriveWire is superior, why bother?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
> Behalf Of Mike Craig
> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 10:14 AM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] CocoNet ROM on eBay
> 
> CoCoNet is a modified version of RSDOS created by Roger Taylor. It's what
> run the DrivePak. There's a great review written about it here:
> http://tandycoco.com/blog/sd_coconet_review
> 
> I believe you could put that Eprom in a cart. Then add a serial cable which
> connects the CoCo to your PC (with CoCoNet Server running on it). It would
> operate similar to Drivewire. Although, Drivewire is waaaaaaaaay more
> developed. Roger sold out the tech to someone else. Not sure if this person
> plans on taking it further or not.
> 
> 
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