[Coco] Thought

[Mark McDougall]

Hi Guys,

I haven't been a subscriber to this mailing list for long, but it seems 
there's quite a bit of interest in various types of 'connectivity adapters' 
for the CoCo. There also appears to be an impressive amount of hardware 
development still going on for such conectors and other CoCo Peripherals.

A while back I developed a small USB 'prototype' board for a couple of my 
other projects. Since then I have had the idea of using it to connect to the 
TRS-80 (1/3/4) floppy drive connector and allow the PC to 'serve' virtual 
disk images for a real trash-80.

[An aside - have you guys seen this...<http://www.rothfus.com/SVD/>]

Anyway, recently I've been toying with the idea of supporting the CoCo as 
well. Is there any interest for this type of device?

Also, anyone got any novel ideas for using a USB connection on a CoCo (the 
USB side of things is strictly device-only - it can't be used to connect 
other USB peripherals to the CoCo for example)? e.g. Another idea I had was 
using it to emulate a network adapter for the trash...

Regards,

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|              Mark McDougall                | "Electrical Engineers do it
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