[A83] Re: Stupid Idea?
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[A83] Re: Stupid Idea?
At 12:01 AM 12/15/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>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...
Hmmm. I think that there was a memory project that had TI emulation over
the link port, but I forget the name. Anyway, adding in PC connectivity
over a standardized interface sounds cool. The other option is to use
something like a USB key. If you had a USB jack and a bit of stuff to
drive the jack and provide the removable storage protocol, you'd have
low-power, non-mechanical storage for the TI. It might even run off the
calc power (a usb key will run from the unpowered ports on a usb keyboard .
. .) Might be a bit too complicated, tho. I think that a microcontroller
that can do a TI link is the best low-cost solution. I believe that Sami's
project was along those lines.
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