Re: Virtual serial drive

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

David Schmidt <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On 9/13/2012 6:19 PM, Sean Fahey wrote:
>> On Thursday, September 13, 2012 1:34:20 PM UTC-5, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>> 
>>> 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...
>> 
>> Well... let's toy with this idea. Why not a small form factor machine,
>> like a Raspberry Pi or similar mini 'PC' that could provide HD
>> partitions (and/or disk serving), clock functions (at least date and
>> time stamping) and serial to ethernet connectivity at the same time?
>> That's the kind of love the //c (and IIc+) could benefit from.
>> 
>> Until the SPVHD is shipping again (it's supposed to be getting a clock
>> driver too), a serial solution may be the only viable option for a long time.
> 
> Is there a protocol for transporting the date/time somewhere I can look
> at?  Is there maybe a status request I can implement or something?

I'd suggest putting it into every vdisk protocol packet from the host in
4-byte ProDOS format. Then the client could just copy it to the ProDOS
global page. 

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