Re: TI-H: TI92 and modem
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Re: TI-H: TI92 and modem
Gulopine R Holiture wrote:
> 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
this solution is a little overkill. would be a lot simpler to use the a
ti-graph link an external modem. and a terminal program and just dial into your
ISP and use it as a shell account (most decent ISP's have lynx installed if
their running some Unix variant) if not then you would have to use the method
you described.
> 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
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