Re: Trying to copy TI's link
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Re: Trying to copy TI's link
The docs I was refering to are two .gif schematics of the "PIClink" in
the text directory at the ticalc.org archives, I know virtually
nothing about electronics though so I have no idea how that works...
Shawn D'Alimonte <sdalimon@www.ee.ryerson.ca> wrote in message
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>Tom Lake <tomlake@slic.com> wrote:
>: There's proprietary code in chips embedded in the cable end itself.
You'd
>: have to get those chips out and dump their contents to a file and
create new
>: chips for the duplicate cable.
>
>Isn't that the cable that looks like a 9600bps serial device to the
>computer? Shouldn't it be possible to use a microcontroller to
>duplicate it without having to reverse engineer TI's cable? The TI
>link protocol is reasonably well documented in various text files
>available from ticalc.org.
>
>Any small microcontroller with RS232 capability should be suitable
>(and it wouldn't surprise me if that is all the TI cable is).
>
>To bad I don't have any microcontrollers around to try this. Anyone
>want to take a shot at this?
>
>--
>Shawn D'Alimonte - sdalimon@ee.ryerson.ca
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