Re: CoCo Serial to Ethernet Interface/Converter

"Christopher R. Hawks via Coco" <coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco
Message-ID <20250520165435.58b6b5ea@Manfred>
On Tue, 20 May 2025 14:56:35 -0400
"Richard E. Crislip via Coco" <coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/[email protected]> 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
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