Re: Which one? Any Advice.
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On Mon, 16 Sep 1996 07:39:26 -0400, James Staber
<staber.industries.inc@postoffice.worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>My son just bought a TI-85 and of course wants to begin saving/loading
>programs from our PC. After searching the net and finding this news
>group, the TI home page, and the TICALC home page, I've come across
>bothe parallel and serial links for costs of between $4 and $50.
>
>Has anyone got anything good or bad to say about the non TI link
>solutions? TI's price is Outrageous but if it's a no hassel way of
>getting the job done.....
>
>On the other hand I'm capable of wiring up some of the other solutions
>(except for the one that need a circuit board...He ought to sell for
>them for a couple of bucks) but they each seem to require other than the
>TI datalink software. So the question is do the hardware solutions work
>and how good is the software to drive the hardware.
>
>Is it worth the time and effort to go non-TI or not?
>
>Any advice, comments, criticism, or accolades would be appreciated.
>
>TIA
>
>Jim
It seems to me that s significant portions of the posts here concern
getting the $4, $5, etc. cables to work. I got the cable from TI, for
$40.00 the software from the TI web site, and it works no problem with
my 85, 85, and 92. The TI cable was entirely hassle free for me. In
view of the fact that my time is valuable, I can't see spending 5 or
so hours, perhaps more judging from posts here, to save 36 bucks, and
then deal with non standard software.
The price did seem high, but I figure that $40.00 is pretty cheap to
have a team of uniformed delivery specialists bring me something that
I pull out of the box, plug into my computer, and be ready to roll.
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