[Coco] Coco to PC cable

[Joel Ewy]

Depends on how you want to do it. 

If you can burn an EPROM or buy a ROM pak from Cloud 9, you can use 
DriveWire.  The documentation for how to build a DriveWire cable is in 
the DriveWire 3  Specification document in the "Support" section of the 
Cloud 9 web site.  Or you could buy a cable from them.  I've just 
downloaded DriveWire 3, burned it onto an EPROM, soldered up a cable, 
and got it running.  It's very cool.  There are servers for MS-Windows, 
Linux, and MacOS X.

Roger Taylor has a program that will convert a file to an audio file 
which can be CLOADed into the CoCo's cassette port.  I think you can 
also produce such a file using a CoCo emulator running on a modern PC.  
Then you just need a CoCo cassette cable.  Roger also sells a ROM pak 
that contains a program similar to DriveWire, as well as a bluetooth 
wireless serial interface.

Or if you have an RS-232 interface of some kind, and can load a terminal 
program from tape or disk, you can use a null-modem serial cable.  The 
World Wide Web can help you here.  E.G.  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_modem

There are lots of ways to do what you're asking.

JCE

Bill wrote:
> What kind of cable would I need to copy files from my PC to my Coco?
>
> Anybody got one??
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