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Re: Serial!

I guess this is a put down to everyone like me (Im not even in high school yet).

"Can you imagine high schoolers attempting this just because it sounds cool
and then totally ruining their calculator?"

No...Actually I couldn't.  Bryan is in HS, and I'm in JHS, we are the ones
makeing the mem expanders for calcs.  Btw,  I fix not break calcs.



>"Pretty good idea actually."?  If that's all you had to say, then why did
>you bother?  Indeed, it is intriguing as something do do just to see if it's
>possible.  As a practical alternative to the Graph Link, however, I think
>it's insane.  Can you imagine high schoolers attempting this just because
>it sounds cool and then totally ruining their calculator?  I know that
>things like turboing work, but geez, it's a calculator, it's not meant to
>be expandable like a desktop computer.  Why does everyone want to have a
>calculator to modem connection anyway (just out of curiosity)?
>
>On Sat, 28 Feb 1998 20:33:38 -0500, The Pletchers
><bpspcp-travelin@WORLDNET.ATT.NET> wrote:
>
>>Pretty good idea actually.
>>
>>At 08:35 PM 2/28/98 -0500, James Hall wrote:
>>>I don't know if anyone's thought about this before.
>>>A while back I read on someones page about someone at MIT
>>>successfully opening a ti-85(?) and connecting a sound card or something to
>>>the bus..
>>>I got to thinking while at work today, What about connecting a
>>>UART chip (for a serial port) to an unused address on the bus?!
>>>Then we wouldn't have to worry about figuring out how to duplicate (or worry
>>>about paying for) a graphlink for connection to a modem!
>>>(and we could have different baud rates too!)
>>>Of course we would have to rewrite any term programs to use the special
>>>address but what do you think?
>>>
>>>     -James, N9XLC
>>>     -jrhall@infocom.com
>>>
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