Re: TI-H: TI92 and modem

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Subject: Re: TI-H: TI92 and modem
From: "Michael Riso" <riso@jps.net>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 08:32:40 -0700
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What I had in mind is if ticalc would set up a few text based pages for the
92 where you could download programs, not in *.zip form, directly to your
calc.  I also think that it would be neat if email could be added to this,
so you could check and run your email from the 92.

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> From: Gulopine R Holiture <gulopine@usa.net>
> To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
> Subject: Re: TI-H: TI92 and modem
> Date: Thursday, April 09, 1998 8:06 AM
> 
> 
> Look guys, what's the point of making all this stuff?  With current
> technology, the smallest you could get is an add-on the size of a
shoe-box,
> with a cord hanging out.  Sure, it'd be "neat" to have a web browser on a
> calc, but it wouldn't be able to support color, extensive graphics (which
> nearly everything is nowadays).  Yes, Richard, hyperlinks do work in
> terminal programs.  How do you think you get around?  I'd be up for a
> text-based browser, but how web sites do you know that are entirely
> text-based?  We'd need a whole new network.  The safest bet would be to
ask
> ticalc.org to put up some extra pages, just for this network.  The
biggest
> problem I can see though, is getting dial-up access.  I'm sure no one
here
> wants to hook their calc up to a computer just use a text-based web
browser.
> If you did that, why not just use Netscape on your computer?  So in order
to
> have the calc completely independent, you'd need a dial-up system.  The
> easiest way to do this would be to write a clone of Winsock on the calc.
> Port it to every system, and have a Dial-up Netwrking program like Win95.
> If Winsock is emulated correctly, it'll be able to interface with
external
> computers just like your computer does.  Then you could dial up your
> favorite internet service, and the ISP won't know the difference, except
> perhaps for slower access times.  Once you have Winsock connected (in TSR
> interrupt mode), you could run an external program compatible with
Winsock
> to do whatever you need to do.  You could run an FTP program, a
text-based
> web browser, a pop3 e-mail program, even IRC!  I guess a web browser
would
> be able to support small (100 pixels wide) b&w images, but that's still
not
> much.  Like I said earlier, we'd need a whole new web server designed to
be
> compatible with this system.  If anybody is game, you could try to write
a
> stand-alone web browser, instead of one on the calc, or maybe an external
> one.  The only big downside to this project is screen capacity, but if it
> were external, that could be solved.  Planar makes an active matrix
> electro-luminexcent (AMEL) display about the size of your index finger. 
The
> resolution is 640x480x512.  Not half bad, actually.  But since it's so
> small, it requires optics which Planar will gladly help you out with (at
a
> little extra cost, of course!).  I'm contacting a guy from Planar about
it
> right now, but he's not responding very quickly.  I haven't figured out
how
> much one display costs, but since they're designed for interface with
> computers, one package comes  with all the stuff necessary to hook it up
to
> your computer.  They have an AMEL development kit too, that $3000 for the
> monochrome, and $3500 for the color.  That's the big problem, y'see. 
Well,
> if anyone is interested, talk to Planar.
> 
> -Gul
>