On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 6:53 PM Jim Brain via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> I think (I might have mentioned it at the thread start) it was part of a > plan for a school network. Tandy offered a similar setup for schools > for the Model 1/3/4 systems, where the "host" could send programs, and > the clients would load from the common host system. IIRC there was the Network 1 which was 500 baud M1/3/4 only, and the Network 2 which was very similar but could also handle 1500 baud M3/4 and Coco (and M100?). These used the casstte ports and allowed the host machine to 'broadcast' a file (program) to all the student stations or load a file from one student station at a time back to the host. If there had been a version using DLOAD then presumably it would have been host to student stations only, so the teacher couldn't save/print/examine a student's work. There was the Network 3 which used RS232 ports on the M3 (and M4?) but which required a ROM change in the student stations I think. -tony
