SV: Trouble Connecting TI-82 via parallel link

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Subject: SV: Trouble Connecting TI-82 via parallel link
From: P-A <acustic@ALGONET.SE>
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 11:49:33 +0200
Reply-To: P-A <acustic@ALGONET.SE>

Maybe you have a second lpt-port on the 200MMX-computer?
I have seen problems with the parallell-cable on fast computers
with just one lpt-port on the motherboard.

Buy a controller-card for a second lpt-port and plug it into
your home computer.
/P-A

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> Från: Ian/Michelle Busch <busches@CTS.COM>
> Till: CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
> Ämne: Trouble Connecting TI-82 via parallel link
> Datum:  den 21 maj 1998 08:29
>
> I recently got a home-made parallel link from a friend to connect my
> TI-82 to my PC.  It works great on my work PC, but acts quite bizarre
> on my home PC.  This is vry strange to me since, if anything, I would
> have thought my work PC was the tough one.
>
> It works fine on a Pentium 200 MMX at work running in a DOS Window
> under Windows 3.11.
>
> At home on a Pentium 133 with Windows 95 (or in DOS, window or clean
> via restart), I get the following strange symptoms that I do not get
> on my work PC:
>
> Calculator screen dims considerably (like 1/2 as bright)
> Calculator slows to an absolute crawl (15+ second response times)
> Get an "error in xmit" message for any send or receive command.
>
> I've tried it at home with W32tran8, Wtrans8, and S8, with Cal, and
> Link-TI, all with no good results, so I'm fairly convinced its not
> just who's code I'm using.  Wtrans8 worked fine at work on the Windows
> 3.11 machine.
>
> Any suggestions?
> (Thanks aforhand)