I agree that an extension would be easier to purchase. You can do this: Buy 2 3/32 to 1/8 adapters at Radio Shack for $4 total, then use a normal stereo headphone connector. If you ditch calcs, use it for your sound system. Besides, I don't see much use for a 100 foot extension since nobody plays tetris on calcs at home (Use the normal link!) and at school, I would feel like a geek playing tetris over a phone cable... Just my *clink* *clink*

Yes. Another point I might add is that the picture of the phone link looks extremely cumbersome. Phone jack casings at each end of the link is very blocky, and you could probably easily break that plastic tab thingie on phone cord. On the other hand, a real audio extension cord serves more practical, streamlined, and less chance of bieng broken (might I add cheaper ^_^).

Another thing I just noticed.
"Don't, we've been around for almost 3 years now at fission2.com!"
"We just started this site on the 4th of September, so we have a lot of work to do yet."

I dunno. Maybe I'm stupid.

Sorry, I will have to make it more clear. FusionWEB Design Co. has been around for almost 3 years, the website was redone Sept. 4th to have our TI projects on it, instead of Website Design.

Web Design? Your page was made with FrontPage98. I can see it in the META tags. I don't know anybody sane who would hire somebody who uses FrontPage to generate commercial websites.

It could be possible the files where uploaded with Frontpage, and Frontpage added to the tags. But I really wouldn't know, the only wysiwyg editor I would touch is notpad.



PROSIT RULES!!!!!!!!!!

I really doubt that Frontpage was used to upload. That's what windoze users use FTP clients to upload, or the uploader built into some web hosting companies.
Umm..Niether Notepad nor VI are in any way WYSIWYG editors.

skrew the phone wire. Just get 10 miles of fire wire.

:)

The resistance in that much wire would kill the signal.

(Yes, I DO know you were being sarcastic...)

I will say, though, I like the added features to the IR link.

I have a question. This line:"Each adapter has an RJ11 jack (standard phone jack) and a 2.5mm Genuine Texas Instruments stereo plug on the other side". How do you intend to supply genuine TI stereo plugs. Do you buy the link cables wholesale from TI, or are you required to send in your link if you intend to purchase this product?

Yes, we are certainly using the genuine TI cords from TI, and buying them wholesale. We will be using these until we can find a good quality plug that will fit correctly in the calculator, at that time, the price of the links should drop to $9.95. They are currently going to sell for about $15.95 , I stress NOT $20.00

Radio links... Now that would be something. I tried that with a friend, but we gave up. It would be very cool if these people pull it off.

By the way, as a question to the fission guys, would your radio link be compatible so that you could plug one end into a TI calc and the other end into a Graphlink? (with a female-to-female converter of course). If this is so, maybe I oughta scrounge up my source to TELROUTE. Firing a telnet session out the Graphlink might be useful now.

Who knows, maybe the dream of being in #physics during a physics test will come true. Of course, I'm not in high school anymore. Ah, well. I'll give it to my brother.

The radio link for web browsing sounds good on paper, and I'm sure would be a great accomplishment. But, have you ever used Lynx browser? That is not very fun to use. Now, imagine "surfing" with a display of 21 characters by 8 characters. Even less fun than Lynx brower.

I have surfed the web (using Lynx) at 24x10 on the TI-83. It's not that great, but it does the job. I would have loved to have unix access in school by having one radio link at a library computer and the other at my calculator. However, I'd spend more of my time in IRC or doing shell stuff than browsing the web. So even though you could web browse with a radio link, it wouldn't be the reason to get one.

Info on Radio Link:

We are currently in designing stages for the schematic, and researching the DAC, ADC and radio circuits. If all goes as planned, the schematics will be available for a small cost, or maybe even free if we can get some advertisers. This should be ready by next year.

Hmm. It seems to me, that all the RJ11 jacks are doing are conducting the electricity sent through the cable. Unless you can prove to me that other parts are necessary, I'm going to have to not believe you.

Why can't we use a phone plug splitter ($5...)
as a hub (use with phone link cable)

why can't someone just make an infrared transmitter?? that would be really helpful!! not some crappy thing with a cord and all, we need to go wireless here!!

Hummmmmmmmm it took me 5 minuts to make a phone cord link cabel i went to good old radio shake got mylef to conectors usd an old phone cord i had laying around and 3 phone jakes (i broke one trying to cut just the jack part out) got out my trustey soldering pencel solderd the wores to the coerct spots on the jack conectors taped i made the other one soldering the wires in the same place pluged my phone cord in to both calcs and i had myself a phone cord link in about 20 min ( i know i coldent find my black tape)