[Coco] Coco to PC cable

Rick Taylor coder32768 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 22 18:32:24 EDT 2009


Hey, where are the instructions for the DriveWire cable? I can't seem to
find them.
Thanks!

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:

> 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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