[Coco] Silly question for the Dragon fans

[Willard Goosey]

Bummer. 

Well it looks like econet was an option on the BBC anyway.  Probably not all that big in the home market.

I can't read about a 6800 support chip without wondering if it would be useful wired up to a CoCo, and if there's an OS-9 driver for it. :-)

Willard


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-------- Original message --------
From David Linsley <davidlinsley at gmail.com> 
Date: 06/23/2014  7:48 PM  (GMT-07:00) 
To CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com> 
Subject Re: [Coco] Silly question for the Dragon fans 
 
I don't recall one being available, or have heard of a user creating one.

There was the Dragon Claw that came out around '86, which added a BBC User port via the cartridge slot. The company who made this also sold a robotic arm and digital camera that were previously sold for the BBC. I think these are almost as rare as hens' teeth though!

Cheers,
David.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Willard Goosey" <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>
Sent: ‎6/‎23/‎2014 3:59 PM
To: "Cocolist" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: [Coco] Silly question for the Dragon fans

So i've been reading about the famed BBC Micro,  and one of the things about it is something called econet.

Econet, it turns out, is rs422 multdrop with FDLC. The interesting thing (to me ) is that this was controlled by the 68B54 chip. Any mention of 6800 support chips gets my attention.

Econet never got anywhere in the USA, but I got to wondering if there was an econet card for the Tano Dragons, and if so, was it popular? 

Willard

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