[Coco] Have no idea what to call it, but, it WAS New tool: WIRED

[Boisy G. Pitre]

Perhaps the Super HDB-DOS project would be something Luis and others would be interested in working on.

Some background: this project was discussed back in September in an email discussion between myself, Mark, Aaron, Darren, Robert Gault and William Astle.  Nothing besides discussion ever took place, and no work was done.

The idea was (and still is) to define a set of commands that would easily allow one to address DriveWire, Floppy, IDE, and SCSI devices in the same ROM, and to do so without making the syntax difficult or strange.  We discussed a number of different proposals to do this.

Time was a factor for me, and I assume others.  It's still a great idea, and I would hope it would gain some traction.


On Dec 4, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Luis Antoniosi  wrote:
>> 
>> BUT.... since the schematics and ROM are available, lets clone it and
>> break the competition :P
>> 
> 
> It would not be difficult to clone the DrivePak since it is itself a
> clone of the Tandy Deluxe RS-232 pak (sans level-shifting circuit and
> DB-25 connector).  In fact, at least one person on this list has
> already converted a Tandy pak into a DrivePak.  The MicroDrive
> (uDrive) module Roger used is an off-the-shelf product made by 4D
> Systems.
> 
> It would make more sense IMO to get a SuperIDE from Cloud-9 since it
> out-performs the DrivePak by a wide margin.  As we have seen, added
> versatility can be achieved with some creative contributions from the
> community.  Now if someone could work on that new 16K Super HDB-DOS...
> 
> Darren
> 
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