[Coco] CoCo Serial to Ethernet Interface/Converter

[Richard E. Crislip]

On Tue, 20 May 2025 16:54:35 -0500
"Christopher R. Hawks via Coco" <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 20 May 2025 14:56:35 -0400
> "Richard E. Crislip via Coco" <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks to all who replied. I'll look into the Drivewire suggestion,
> > I do have several PIs and a couple ancient computers I may be able
> > to use for this. The trick for me is to install Drivewire on Linux
> >   
> 
>     Once again, Drivewire is the answer!
> 
>     Maybe one of the hardware gurus should design a ROMPAK size board
> with a 40 pin header for a Pi Zero to connect +5, ground, and the TTL
> UART pins. Connect a '6551' to the UART pins (ala RS232 Rom Pak) and
> add enough flash to hold the correct version of HDBDOS.
> 
>     Drivewire in a ROMPAK!!
> 
>     Unplug the PAK from the CoCo and connect power, keyboard, meese,
> and display, for configuration. Easy to set any version of Drivewire
> to auto-start against the serial port on the Pi.
> 
> 
> Christopher R. Hawks
> HAWKSoft

Excellent suggestion!