tashtari
PIC Whisperer
I'm thinking about ADB again for some reason, and it was only a matter of time before this white whale resurfaced in my brain.
For the uninitiated, at some point Global Village made a 2400 baud TelePort modem (the first or one of the first bearing that name, I think) that really was an ADB peripheral in its own right; this was before the dime-a-dozen ones that just siphon power from the ADB port while plugging into a serial port for their actual data. This article describes it.
To the best of my recollection, it remains the only ADB device I've ever heard of that isn't a keyboard, mouse/trackball/tablet/pointing-device, or security dongle, and is thus uniquely interesting.
Does anyone know if there's ever been any effort to figure out the protocol that these things use? Hell, does anyone even have one? I would love to figure out its protocol and emulate it in one of my firmware projects, but I've never seen one up for sale.
For the uninitiated, at some point Global Village made a 2400 baud TelePort modem (the first or one of the first bearing that name, I think) that really was an ADB peripheral in its own right; this was before the dime-a-dozen ones that just siphon power from the ADB port while plugging into a serial port for their actual data. This article describes it.
To the best of my recollection, it remains the only ADB device I've ever heard of that isn't a keyboard, mouse/trackball/tablet/pointing-device, or security dongle, and is thus uniquely interesting.
Does anyone know if there's ever been any effort to figure out the protocol that these things use? Hell, does anyone even have one? I would love to figure out its protocol and emulate it in one of my firmware projects, but I've never seen one up for sale.