On 12/6/06, Warren Wolfe <wizard at voyager.net> wrote:
Hello, Fellow Cyber-Archaeologists,
I have an idea... (everybody duck)
One of the more common problems in the field of classic computers is
that of loading operating systems, programs, and data onto an old
machine. Could we not come up with a standard means of information
interchange? I would suggest the USB memory sticks one sees everywhere
now. I just bought a few of them at about four dollars each -- and each
one stores a gigabyte of information.
You need to add a USB host controller. This solves a more general
problem of getting access to modern USB devices. Flash drives,
keyboards, joysticks, mice, serial adapters, parallel adapters, even
VGA adapters.
The good news is, that this has already been done... see
http://microusb.org
If you poke around, they do have Forth code for accessing a USB flash key drive.
-- John.