4 Jun
2012
4 Jun
'12
7:23 p.m.
http://www.cloud9tech.com/ (no affiliation, other than
as a highly
satisfied customer) does market DriveWire for the CoCo3 running
NitrOS-9. I have not (yet) used it, but they claim 115,200 bps on a
CoCo3. There is a corresponding server that runs on the (Windows/Mac
What hardware does it use at the CoCo end? It can't use the bit-banged
serial port (obviously), and none of the traditional RS232 modules would
go at that speed. Is there some special serial board for the CoCo (using
a PC-like serial chip, perhaps).
OS X/Linux) other end of the serial wire, and they
claim TCP/IP and
several dependent services (telnet, MIDI streaming to the server). So
Tony's suggestion more or less already exists, with the assumption
THis does not suprise me, it wouldn';t be that difficult to do. OS-9 is
really, really, hackable...
that you don't mind a modern-ish PC acting as an
external ethernet
<-> serial adaptor.
-tony