Re: TI-H: Advanced Link port
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Re: TI-H: Advanced Link port
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From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Sunday, March 01, 1998 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: TI-H: Advanced Link port
>
>>Does this hook up directly on the bus?
>
>Nope. Link port. It is surprizingly<sp> fast!
how?
>Is is parallel data?
>
>Well, 8 lines, yes. You could think of it as a byte in parallel, or 8
>serial lines... :) Or a word in Z80 ASM for the 16bit...
please explain. . .
>If so, what is
>>keeping us from using an advanced addressing system to have 256 data
inputs,
>>and 256 data outputs?
>
>I will have instructions to build up to 256 lines. because of the way it
>works, you could have, in theory (I'm not testing it), 65536 data lines...
cool!
>Then, with enough ASM, enough memory, and enough time
>>:) we could build a calculator-controlled robot!
>
>Each 8 lines cost about $.55.
so?
>Save $300 or so bucks on
>>an onboard computer!
>
>Sure. Just duct dape it...
super glue might work
>Have mainly hardware control, but let the calculator
>>control movementd. You could even have a hardware-based voice recognition
>>system, using a comparator, some kind of voice library, and then input it
>>into the calc. The calc could then in turn say, "Since he said go left, I
>>should turn this motor x% to the right, and turn these motors on". Or
>>something like that. I've been working on a robot ever since I got this
>>really cool book. I was going to put a computer on it, but this would be
>>much simpler and cheaper. I also didn't want to spend money on C++ and
>>training books (which I would never read).
>
>You could do that... Don't expect the thing to run though, or it might
>fall. Remember its a 6MHz 8080 and could fall!
If we used multiple calcs. . .
>Who says calculators are just
>>for math!
>my mom... :)
mine too, she doesn't believe all the other things I can do with it!
-Robert Brack
reb@netride.com