Re: TI-H: Two Ideas...

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Subject: Re: TI-H: Two Ideas...
From: "Jon Olson" <morph@jmss.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 20:01:17 -0500
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erm...i thought that external zips were parallel...

-----Original Message-----
From: Kaus <kaus@cybrzn.com>
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Thursday, December 03, 1998 8:00 PM
Subject: Re: TI-H: Two Ideas...


>
>I meant a driver on the calc.  he means that he doesnt even want the
>computer in between.  Directly from zip drive (ext) ->graphlink->calc
>
>At 04:31 PM 12/3/98 -0900, you wrote:
>>
>>Aww...Driver is about 60 lines of C.  Add that as inline code and it
should
>>work fine.  The question is, is it sensible and worth the time?  :)
>>
>>Grant
>>
>>
>>>if hte zipd drive uses serial to transfer its data, it would be possible.
>>>but a bit slow.
>>>and the driver might be big. im not sure on the size.
>>>
>>>
>>>At 04:16 PM 12/3/98 -0600, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I don't really know too much about electronics or how the calculator
>>>>works, but I do have two ideas.  The first... would it be possible to
>>>>simply use the Ti-Graphlink to connect your calculator to a zip drive
and
>>>>then have a program to send/recieve?  I was also wondering if using a
modem
>>>>would make the RF link easier to create.  I'm sure you guys can answer
>>>>these questions.  Thanks in advance.
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>

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Re: TI-H: Two Ideas...

From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>