Re: SD: RE: New operating system...
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Re: SD: RE: New operating system...
----- Original Message -----
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
To: <shell-developers@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 1999 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: SD: RE: New operating system...
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>I don't have information for the 89, so no backup support there...
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>>yes, as a matter of fact, Grant Stockly is working oon jsut such a box :)
>>of course, he later modified his version to be an adapted EII, and I dont
>>think he is really working on it to hard. But, it would be simple enough
to
>>do, just have any old AVR or microcontroller send things in TI-protocol
down
>>a simple serial ti compatible serial channel. have it do that when you
>>press a button, and you could go into your link menu, recv, and then hit
the
>>button, the avr would transmit the backup stored on a rom chip (or in the
>>avr's rom, bakcups arent usually that big unless they are jammed full of
>>games). So, realisitically, you could buitld one of these as a single
chip,
>>a simple power supply, and you are done.
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>Maybe two chips. AVRs don't have nearly enough onboard flash. THey have
>512bytes on the 8515...
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i guess so. i didnt check my specs close enough :)
kaus