31 Jan
2023
31 Jan
'23
7 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 6:53 PM Jim Brain via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I think (I might have mentioned it at the thread
start) it was part of a
plan for a school network. Tandy offered a similar setup for schools
for the Model 1/3/4 systems, where the "host" could send programs, and
the clients would load from the common host system.
IIRC there was the Network 1 which was 500 baud M1/3/4 only, and the
Network 2 which was very similar but could also handle 1500 baud M3/4
and Coco (and M100?). These used the casstte ports and allowed the
host machine to 'broadcast' a file (program) to all the student
stations or load a file from one student station at a time back to the
host.
If there had been a version using DLOAD then presumably it would have
been host to student stations only, so the teacher couldn't
save/print/examine a student's work.
There was the Network 3 which used RS232 ports on the M3 (and M4?) but
which required a ROM change in the student stations I think.
-tony