[Coco] atari USB device

[Roger Taylor]

At 09:02 PM 11/17/2004, you wrote:

>Hmm... not there yet, but things I can think of that will be interesting
>to investigate:
>
>1. USB<->RS232
>2. USB Parallel port
>3. USB LCD Panel for "heads up display"
>
>Then later, if even possible (or with a microcontroller to assist)
>
>0. USB flash reader/writer
>1. USB key drives/hard drives
>2. USB floppy disk drive
>3. USB<->Ethernet or Wifi
>4. USB IrDA
>5. USB Bluetooth
>6. USB Digitial-to-analog converter (sound card)
>7. USB->SVGA adapter (no, I'm not kidding, they exist...)
>
>The nice thing is that we can get something that does a lot (keyboard,
>joystick, mouse) without a tremendous amount of effort.


Considering that Disk BASIC runs normally at ~1mhz and OS-9 at ~2mhz, and 
the USB 1.x (being the slower of the USB protocols) is pretty dern fast, 
the CoCo will not be able to use devices near as quickly as we do on a 
PC.  It might even be painfully slow for some devices.  But, you gotta 
admit, the whole idea sounds extremely tempting.


-- 
Roger Taylor