Re: Virtual serial drive

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Riccardo <rigreco.grc@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys
> I have another strange ideas for you:
> 1) my //c don't have real time clock device built-in, so, is it possible
> improve ADT server to read time and date from PC/MAC system and puts in
> RAM memory location of //C, that Prodos 8 use for make DATE and TIME in a
> single files on directory, every minutes (for example), when the virtual
> drive is on-line ? (-VSDRIVE)
> 2) my //c don't have any expansion slot,therefore, we can use serial
> connection to simulate z-80 co-processor card ?, (i know that serial
> connection is slower then LAN, but the system is't very quickly)(-VSZ80)
> 3) We can use serial connection to make an external processing of
> Applesoft Basic, or interchange part of code between //c and PC/MAC, so
> as improve calculation ? (-VSCOPROCESSOR)
> I'm sorry for my English,
> Thanks for yous attention,

Be careful--the next logical step is having your IIc just be a terminal for
an emulator running on the PC. And the serial link is too slow for
graphics!

I do like the idea of getting the time/date with each vdisk access...

-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon