[Coco] $4 USB HOST a chip

[Allen Huffman]

> On Feb 23, 2017, at 2:08 PM, John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> 
> As in my reply to Allen -- you are then tying that piece of hardware to
> being specifically a keyboard adapter (i.e. not a "USB" adapter). There
> is nothing wrong with that, but that less familiar with the details
> will be prone to thinking that they can plug a joypad or an SD card
> reader into that device and have it work with the CoCo, which they
> can't.

Yep. Just like all this consumer stuff that has a USB port but it can only be used for a flash drive or nothing at all ("service port").

Doing a "one port to rule them all" is possible using a micro, but ... you'd have a cable running inside the CoCo and cables running to the joystick ports and another to the RS232 port.

THAT would be cool.

		-- A