[coco] For Boisy or Mark ref Super Driver

Boisy G. Pitre boisy at boisypitre.com
Fri Sep 17 07:12:31 EDT 2004


On Sep 16, 2004, at 11:53 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 15:09, alsplace at pobox.com wrote:
>> Depends on price, but I 100% plan to get DriveWire (hey, it's a cheap
>> CoCo/PC/Mac? shared file system -- sorta!), and of course I need the
>> KenTon.
>
> Speaking of DriveWire, a Palm PDA would make a nice disk drive for a
> Coco, particularly one with a flash card slot.

Hey, that's not a bad idea!  It never occurred to me to write a Palm OS 
based DriveWire server.  That would be extremely cool.

> Writing something similar to be compatible with DriveWire would be a
> good excuse to dust my Coco off.
>
> Is the Drivewire protocol open or closed? That is, will someone give it
> to me so I don't have to fire up my serial protocol analyzer ;-)

The protocol is indeed open.  You can go to the support section of 
www.cloud9tech.com and there is a link to the DriveWire Protocol.

I say go for it.

Boisy




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