[Coco] [Color Computer] USB Anyone?

[j_e_daggett]

Running standard RSDOS mayb e the answer is no!

But for OS9 or NitrOS9 that is entirely different. With OS9  you are
not restricted to the low resolution mice and small keyboard. 

james

--- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, "Glen VanDenBiggelaar"
<glenvdb at h...> wrote:
> 
> This is my point. Do we realy need a usb keyboard? Mouse? Joystick?
My CoCo 
> 3's keyboard is fine, You can still get TR mice easily, and
joysticks are so 
> plentiful that you can get them usually for under $5 bucks (i Have over 
> 40)-granted the TR joystick is not the greatest, but we aren't
plying NHL 
> 2005 here.
> I think, if we do this, we have to focus on drivers that will make
the CoCo 
> 3 Instantly more than it was before. That means focusing on products
that 
> were never avalible to the CoCo in the first place. There are tons
of USB 
> floppy drives for laptops on the market and hard drives also. It
would be 
> nice to stick a small laptop drive in my CoCo 3 case, and just had a
USB 
> conector (easy to hide the wires) . The keyboard mouse and joystick
can be 
> added later, but if you want people to buy them right off the hopp,
you have 
> to come out with drives that instantly transform the CoCo into
something 
> more than it already is. If they were avalible today, and they only had 
> these drivers, I would not buy it until other drivers were avalible
to make 
> it do something that it couldn't do before.
> -Just my 2 cents, and my marketing courses involved.
> -Glen
> >
> >On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 23:52 -0600, Glen VanDenBiggelaar wrote:
> > >
> > > This would be great, but evryone would have to agree on the set of 
> >primary
> > > drivers. we would have to think about what devices would be most 
> >imprtant
> > > first (maybe a 3.5' floppy or a hard drive?) we could all debate
for 
> >hours
> > > whats the most important stuff to hook up.
> > > -Glen
> >
> >Programmers are lazy. The dominoes will likely fall in order of
"easiest
> >first."
> >
> >So I'd expect a USB joystick, a USB keyboard, a USB mouse, and then
> >maybe a USB Serial or USB Parallel Port.
> >
> >Then perhaps a USB storage device, like a key drive.
> >
> >-- John.
> >
> >
> >
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