Re: TI-H: Re: New expander
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Re: TI-H: Re: New expander
By the way, this is for an I2C expander. Sorry!
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Dezur <jeffd@wwnet.net>
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Monday, October 13, 1997 9:57 PM
Subject: TI-H: Re: New expander
>What would happen if someone made a new expander, that used 7 chips, instead of one, since you can have up to 7 different chips(addresses) on the bus of the calc. I know that with the temp sensor, you can have up to 7 different sensors(different addresses), and we could just change those sensors (and schematics) to the EEPROM chips, and then we could have a (hopefully) new , inexpensive expander!
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>I am just thinking, so, don't flame me because I might not know what I'm talking about.
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>Jeff Dezur
>jeffd@gcsi.net
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Osma Suominen <ozone@clinet.fi>
>To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
>Date: Monday, October 13, 1997 12:56 PM
>Subject: RE: TI-H: Ti Modem
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>>Christopher Kalos wrote:
>>> remembering what I just sent involving tcp/ip and ex*nders, if we had it over
>>> i2c, then we might not have a problem :)
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>>Currently, we do. There are two main reasons for this:
>>1. Nobody has yet made an I2C expander. The ESF uses its own protocol and
>>others use the TI protocol. An I2C EEPROM would work, but the biggest one I
>>know of is only 128kbits, which is 16 kBytes. Not worth the effort.
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>>2. Nobody has yet made a serial port device that connects to the calc via
>>I2C. In fact, the only serial port hardware around is the TI Graph Link,
>>that certainly doesn't use I2C but the TI protocol.
>>
>>-Ozone
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>>> Osma Suominen wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm not saying it's impossible, but there's not much point in it. The
>>>> calculator has too little RAM to spend to protocols like TCP/IP, PPP, FTP
>>>> and HTTP. Instead, I'd dial up an ISP with a Unix shell and use Unix
>>>> through the serial link with the calc as a terminal. I've never used ZTerm,
>>>> but I think it's VT100 compatible, at least to some extent, so that should
>>>> work fine (someone said he'd done this).
>>>
>>> Oh, and before you suggest using some sort of a memory expander, think
>>> about where it should be connected...to the link port. And using the TI
>>> protocol, we can't have two devices in the same port.
>>>
>>> -Ozone
>>>
>>> --
>>> *** Osma Suominen *** ozone@clinet.fi *** http://www.clinet.fi/~ozone ***
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>>*** Osma Suominen *** ozone@clinet.fi *ttpww.cnet.fi/~ozne ***
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