[A83] Re: Stupid Idea?
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[A83] Re: Stupid Idea?
I totally agree with David Phillips' idea... if you've ever tried to make an
OS .. or read around.. you will have noticed that making a floppy driver is
loads more complicated than IDE and ATAPI.... and all of these would require
"mobile" parts, heads .... which usually require lots more electrical energy
to operate than silicon storage ... but a way you could make it interface
with the pc is easy: make the main "box" have a minijack socket, so to
connect ot the calc you use unit-2-unit cable, and you could also plug it
directly to a graphlink, and have a PC prog to send/rec from the "box"...
if you make it good enough, you can make it fake being a ti calc (83?) so
tigraphlink/ticonnect could be used to manage the files...
-Nicolas Gilles
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Phillips" <david@acz.org>
To: <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 23:24
Subject: [A83] Re: Stupid Idea?
> Ronald Teune writes:
> > Why not use a floppy drive?
> > Easy to carry medium, 2 MB (well, that's max) on one floppy, and if
> > you use fat (at the expense of 560 KB) you can even use the floppy in
> > your PC!
>
> Floppies are slow and unreliable. They require a lot of power compared to
a
> memory chip. Physically, they are large, clunky and heavy. They require
a
> lot of circuitry to be usable.
>
> The floppy drive idea is horrible.
>
> --
> David Phillips <david@acz.org>
> http://david.acz.org/
>
>
>
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