[Coco] Its Alive!

[Brian Blake]

On 10/10/2013 9:48 AM, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu wrote:
>> Am 10.10.2013 14:55, schrieb Brett Gordon:
>>> Idea:  RPi as a DW server and keyboard replacement.  I think the RPi has
>>> enough GPIO pins.. too bad they're 3.3 volts rather than 5 vDC
>> And there is the idea to emulate a floppy drive with a Raspberry Pi, see:
>>
>> http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4251
>>
> Isn't the functionality you get with DriveWire?  Not a physical
> disk emulator, but a logical disk emulator.  Seems like what they
> are discussing would just be a lot of work to accomplish the same
> thing.
> (Don't get em wrong, I am looking at finding some hardware, and the
> Pi was one option I looked at, that could emulate old disk hardware
> for the PDP-11 and VAX, like RX 8" floppies which do not use the
> standard 8" interface and RL02 which is another totally different
> beast.  Once I get more familiar with it I am also thinking of
> trying to do a DriveWire client for them.)
>
> bill
>
>
>
> --
> Coco mailing list
> Coco at maltedmedia.com
> http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco

The problem with the DriveWire and CoCoNet products is that some 
software is not compatible. Software that didn't use proper DSKCON 
routines will not work with either product.

Darren A. (and I think someone else) was working on a hardware emulator 
- no idea what the status is.

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tandy Color Computer <http://www.tandycoco.com>
Tandy CoCo Forum <http://www.tandycoco.com/forum>