[Coco] Bit-Banger Serial as external console?

[Chester A Patterson]

Years ago I used Cocos via their bit-bangers to communicate with remote screens connected to scales in production lines. The scale keyboard had three function keys to communicate back to the Coco. So the scale operator interacted with the Coco all day. I enjoyed those projects immensely.  I got the idea because of reading in Rainbow (I think) of some oil drilling site that used a Coco to control the drilling. Ages ago that.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Fischer <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com> 
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2019 9:47 PM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] Bit-Banger Serial as external console?


It is out of scope for your project,

But I remember vaguely using OS-9 to log in on another computer using the bit banger on the CoCo.

If someone can confirm that, the NitrOS-9 source code might be useful to look at.

It has been 25 +- 10 or more years so my memory is very fuzzy.

SHF