[Coco] CoCo Serial to Ethernet Interface/Converter

[gene heskett]

On 5/19/25 20:16, Richard E. Crislip via Coco wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As the Subject says, has anyone developed a CoCo serial to ethernet
> converter to run a ethernet connected printer from the CoCo? TIA

IF note BIG IF we have a ser to usb, you are about halfway there as 
there are many USB hubs available which include a more or less std 
Ethernet cat5 port replacing one of the USB outputs on these.

The problem is mainly the FCC regulations for wireless stuff, makers are 
precluded from exposing any wireless devices that can be potentially be 
made to do illegal frequencies or power outputs, making them essentially 
black boxes, so if the maker does not supply a driver, they are also 
enjoined from sharing the how to drive it info with us so we could write 
our own.

That, and the coco's sharing a grossly incomplete i/o decoding scheme 
with memory access throws some very large wrenches into the works. I've 
screamed about that for 30 years or more, but no one has ever designed a 
new mobo that fixes that.  That is 100% our fault.


>
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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