31 Jan
2023
31 Jan
'23
1:26 p.m.
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.