[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: Why USB would be nice.

[James Diffendaffer]

> usb interface, what real Benifate is it? We all know that hooking up
newer 
>devices like a digital camera or a scanner will not be fesable on the
CoCo, 
>so we are left to hook up devices we ALREADY have and were designed (all 

There is a huge difference between a CoCo serial pack and a USB serial
interface.  Same goes for CoCo joystick vs a Playstation type joypad.


>admit some rather slow) to work with the CoCo. Why hook up a USB floppy 
>drive when a we have or can make newer controlers for a floppy?

Most existing controllers don't work with high density floppies do
they?  Not many 720K disks still being made either.  New controllers
will probably cost as much as a USB interface so why create a new
floppy interface?  On top of that there are 2x speed USB floppy
drives... something a new floppy controller won't accomplish.


> So far NO 
>one has given "The killer applcation" for USB, they are just 

You want a magic bullet to make over the CoCo into a new machine.  A
new machine is the only thing that will do that.

You say rehashing but the USB devices work better than the old ones
and when one interface is much cheaper than a bunch of them why keep
beating the old dead horse... er... hardware.


>more. Compact flash is already being dropped for never forms like SD
etc, 
>but floppies will always be a universal standard. Can you see Microsoft 

Uh, yeah... and the floppy controller is being dropped from more and
more PC motherboards.

>selling a compact flash card to "Boot" from?

Funny, I can boot from a USB flash drive if I want and hasn't
Microsoft stopped including boot floppies?

I dunno... perhaps Canada is a little different.

> not in this day and age when 
>floppies are so much more abundant.

Well... actually most of the people I know don't use floppies in their
PCs.  With USB flash drives on sale as low as $12 (64MB at Target a
couple weeks ago) I don't see cost as much of an issue.


> Network interfaces for the CoCo will not 
>be useable with USB. so that just leaves your list of stuff we
already have.
>-Glen

And why not?  All it needs is a TCP/IP stack and driver.





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