[Coco] CoCo Serial to Ethernet Interface/Converter

[Alex Evans]

There is the CoCoUSB which looks like a serial port to the coco. It can
even be setup to take the standard coco serial port roms.


On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM gene heskett via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

> 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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