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.
I worked with an elementary school teacher who used exactly such a system to
ship software from a CoCo 3 with a floppy drive to diskless CoCo 2s. You turned
the dial to each client in turn and ran CLOAD on the client, and it pulled it
over the cassette port. No automatic push, but I think he had only around 15
computers or so, so it didn't take long to load software. My math fractions
trainer I wrote in CoCo BASIC was in use there for a number of years.
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