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> Today, he simply connects a serial port between the CoCo and a PC, with the PC acting as a virtual disk drive emulator. From the third page, I find this fasc
by throwawayaway 12y ago
> Today, he simply connects a serial port between the CoCo and a PC, with the PC acting as a virtual disk drive emulator.
From the third page, I find this fascinating - does anybody know more about it? Is it an FTP or something else?
EDIT: here's his website, http://users.axess.com/twilight/sock/ http://users.axess.com/twilight/sock/
- jarcane 12y agoIt's DriveWire4: https://sites.google.com/site/drivewire4/ https://sites.google.com/site/drivewire4/
- throwawayaway 12y agovery interesting that it supports osx as there are so few modern apple computers that have any way of using an rs232 port, I think the last macbook pro with an express card slot was released in 2011. perhaps a usb to rs232 is used.
- fredoralive 12y agoIt must require an Xserve, they had serial ports. :-) (But more seriously, USB->Serial converters work with Mac OS X, I used one to connect a Palm m105 to a G3 iBook running Mac OS X 10.1 way back when. More currently, it seems the OS itself ships with drivers for FTDI's converter chips nowadays, although I haven't used that capability).
- jarcane 12y agoIt supports TCP/IP as well, and with OS-9 I think at least it's possible to connect to that directly using a serial-to-LAN bridge. It also supports local IP connections as well, which makes it useful for emulators, as DriveWire is much more capable and featureful than simply loading disk images.
- spogbiper 12y agoMost people use usb-serial adapters whether on Mac, Windows or Linux. Source: I wrote it ;)