Re: A85: 4 port CalcNet Hub

To: assembly-85@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A85: 4 port CalcNet Hub
From: richardlewis@cedarcity.net (Richardlewis)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 22:11:45 GMT
Organization: netmark
Reply-To: assembly-85@lists.ticalc.org


-> >Grant Stockly wrote: 
-> >> 
-> >> >I would be interested in only the finished product,   I don't do much 
-> >> >electronics stuff. 
-> >> 
-> >> Yes.  I'll be building the completed Hubs as well. 
-> >> 
-> >> Grant 
-> >How much will the completed hubs cost? 
->  
-> I don't know yet.  I'll have to add up the cost of my prototype unit. 
->  
-> Also, exactly what are they? 
-> They connect up to 4 (and soon 8) calculators together. 
->  
-> >Are they used to connect a calculator to the internet, or to expand 
-> >memory?  If the former, is an external modem is needed? 
-> Nope.  They can connect to the internet if someone wrote the driver, right 
-> now you can print and store files on a server. 
 
Is this something like the I2C emulation network that was disigned and
built a while ago, or does it use complex hardware?  The I2C network was just
wires, but nobody ever programmed anything for it.