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Re: TI-H: Hello




To fix it, order another jack from www.mouser.com or www.digikey.com  Make
sure it is 2.5mm or 3/32 (i think).  Also, make sure it is stereo.  Replace
it.

                                                                            
-Robert Brack

reb@netride.com

-----Original Message-----
From: C T X1WV1 <CTX1WV1@aol.com>
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Thursday, February 26, 1998 11:21 AM
Subject: TI-H: Hello


>
>Hi.
>I just wanted to let everyone know I have joined, and to ask a few
questions.
>I recently found that the brittle plastic in the linkport on my TI-92
snapped,
>causing the contact for the first ring to be exposed, and to break off
where
>it was soldered to the board.  I am currently using a setup with a wire
>wrapped around the 2nd ring of my GraphLink cable and layed into the calc
to
>touch the old solder where the contact used to be.  I would appreciate any
>ideas on how to fix this.  (I don't want to have to send it back to TI, and
I
>don't even know if the warantee will cover it...it probably won't.)
>I have been reading the archive of this list, and have noticed a few
projects
>that I find interesting. One would be the network hub that...if memory
>serves...supports up to 128 connections, and can connect everything from Ti
>calcs to PCs, and anything in-between.  Another thing I would like to see
>finished soon would be the EII.  The other projects that seem interesting
are
>the IR link, and (if anyone decides to build it) the RF link.
>I am new to the world of TI Calcs and the world of hardware, but find both
>interesting, and have decided to pick up electronics as a hobby, if for
>nothing else, to build interesting attatchments for my 92.
>
>                                                      -Tom (C-T-X1WV1)
>