[Coladam] adam news

[Ron Mitchell]

Sure looks like it couild open up a few doors. You mentioned drives and 
printers. That would be really something, to be able to store ADAM files on 
a flash drive, or to be able to use a USB printer. Wonder how the flash 
drive would appear to the ADAM - an infinitely huge storage space that it 
could read and write to?  Or perhaps some portion of the flash drive that 
would appear as a virtual drive to the Adam. One would then need some way of 
reading from and writing to that virtual area so as to be able to transfer 
files from the Win box to the Adam. (ie .dsk files). Would any special 
formatting be required? Suppose we don't know yet.

Keep us posted Joe

Ron Mitchell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "SacNews" <jblenkle at sacnews.net>
To: <coladam at adamcon.org>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 9:41 PM
Subject: [Coladam] adam news


Hey all...I just wanted to update you on some possibly exciting news. As 
some of you know I also own Atari 8-bit computers. There has been a device 
available that lets you hook up the Atari to your PC so you can use its 
drives, printers, etc. just as if they were hooked up to the Atari.

I know there was an attempt to do this same sort of thing with the ADAM and 
that's what originally gave me the idea to contact Steven Tucker (the person 
who did the APE Interface for the Atari - Atari Peripheral Exchange).

I asked him if the same thing could be done with the ADAM. I pointed him 
toward ADAM documentation concerning ADAMNet, etc. and he became intrigued 
by the ADAM. So he bought one and has been experimenting with it.

He reported to me a few days ago that he's been able to get USB devices to 
communicate with ADAM through ADAMNet, but has not yet been able to boot 
anything from a USB device on the ADAM. He hoped to be able to work on it 
some more this weekend.

I am totally ignorant as far as hardware goes on the ADAM, but to me this 
sounds like potentially exciting news.

Any comments or thoughts on this from the group?

Joe Blenkle
jblenkle at sacnews.net
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