A89: Re: Link cable, HELP!
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A89: Re: Link cable, HELP!
The grey cylinder is a magnet, try it out! As someone posted before: the
magnet is there to reduce possible spikes sent along the cable.
Sorry I cannot help you, I just shelled out the $30 to buy the TI-GL cable.
I have never tried to build my own...
-Miles Raymond
-----Original Message-----
From: Alain BROBECKER <abrobecker@yahoo.com>
To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Sunday, October 25, 1998 3:00 AM
Subject: A89: Link cable, HELP!
>
>Ok, i know now... It just contains a gray cylinder, probably to avoid
>interferences.
>
>I started my Link cable again, without this... Same result!
>HELP!
>
>> Does anyone know what exactly IS in the "big thing" on the cable?
>If I had
>> a spare cable to work with, I just might take it apart and look.
>>
>> >Just finished my "TI92 like" homebrew link cable, i used
>> >the minijack from the TI-TI cable.
>> >
>> >Alas, when the TI89 is plugged, it hangs (after the standard
>> >second delay) and works again when i unplug...
>> >
>> >The problem might come from the "big thing" on the cable,
>> >(a self inductance bobbin?), and i will try tomorrow to make
>> >the cable anew without this.
>> >
>> >Anybody encountered the same problem?
>> >Anybody made his own cable?
>> >(I don't want to give away 40£ for the TI cable!)
>
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