Re: You can get the 2.5mm plug at R.S.


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Re: You can get the 2.5mm plug at R.S.



Matthew Twomey <mtwomey@clc.cc.il.us> wrote in article
<55o7ak$ele@news.clc.cc.il.us>...
> I have posted this again and again. Lately I've heard people using
aligator
> clicps to attach their link cables! People you can get a 2.5mm plus at
Radio
> Shack - ther don't have this exactly but they *do* have a 1/8 inch to
2.5mm
> stereo plug. You get this and make your link with an 1/8 plug instead.
This
> way you are all set to plug headphones into the TI as well when you want
to
> play Pong or any other game with sound!
>


I have already tried this and it doesn't work. The connectors are spaced
slightly differently on the real TI-xx cable. It ends up shorting two of
them together.


Just call TI and buy a unit to unit cable for $6 and make two link cables
(Sell one!)


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