Re: LZ: A few questions, a few comments, blahblah.
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About the memory. The tactic to use it as extended memory is not part of
Mel's plan though he said it could be done. It's up to the ZShell
developers and programmers to make it so that it can be simultaneously
accessed, so Mel has nothing to do with this idea.
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-= Zenon@bbs.nexes.com =-
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: From: list-zshell@lists.ticalc.org
: To: Zenon
: Subject: Re: LZ: A few questions, a few comments, blahblah.
: Date: October 8, 1996 9:44 PM
:
:
: According to "D. Switzer":
: >
: >Okie. A few questions first:
: >
: > The temp-sensor. I see the designs. Neato. I see the basic idea
: >of commincating with the I2C circuits in general. Skippy. But where's
the
: >software? or is the point to code your own? I just can't seem to find
it..
: >
: >
:
: The temp-sensor currently has no software at the moment. The coding is
: being done by myself and ( I think ) Ed Plese. As you know doubt have
heard
: from earlier posts, the previous chip setup got destroyed 2 weeks ago, so
it
: may be a while before the routines are finished.
:
: > Possible pipe dream: Saw something on TV about some company or
: >another giving away a free hand-held gps with a couple models of 4-wheel
: >off road'ers. So the question. Would it be feasable to do GPS with the
: >calc? Or is it a tight enough commercial concept, where the signal and
: >the protocol are secret?
: >
:
: GPS requires several sensors; it is by no means commercial, as I have
done
: construction fairs where one team used several GPS sensors and a Newton
to
: control a model helicopter. But whether or not we can do it with two
wires
: ( or get a fast enough pace with an I2C IO expander ) is another thing.
:
:
: >
: > Question: Are any of the various memory expansion (oh, terribly
: >sorry EXTENTION.. or whatever) going to be file-storage, or accessable
: >memory? AKA can I run a program directly off of it, or will it be copy
to
: >main memory, then run ?
: >
:
: I can't tell you till Mel Tsai releases the fixed schematics.
:
: >
: > Question: To the fellow who mentioned the 1-chip 300 baud modem,
: >I have my "free sample" ont he way also to play about with, but do you
: >know off hand if it also generates the dtmf tones, and all? I'm still
: >blown away byt he idea of a 1 chip modem, 300 baud or no.
: >
:
: Hehe. I'm not sure. I am going to order one tonight ;)
:
: >
: > Comment: About the ZSHELL 4.5 stuff, "when it out?" questions:
: >I'd just like to say, I'm eagerly waiting, but can understand having a
: >life outside of a hobby, no matter how hard-core the hobby is. Gotta say
: >to all the people who are/were involved in ZSHELL's devolpment, you guys
: >are utterly briliant. You really and truly are. This is a fabulous piece
: >of software, you took a very useful calculator and turned it into an
: >invaluable hand-held computer. Thanks alot for letting me get my moneys
: >worth and FAR more!
: >
:
: Yep. Agreed.
:
: Hope all this helps,
: Ryan Myers ( rmyers@teleport.com )
: http://www.teleport.com/~rmyers/
: "Canthus" or "Darren" on DARKWORLD / Twisted Fate
:
: C> Warning: REALITY.SYS may be corrupt. Reboot universe(y/n)?
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