Re: TI-H: floppy drive

To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: TI-H: floppy drive
From: Exxon00 <Exxon00@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 20:56:06 EST
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Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org


In a message dated 98-03-21 17:02:02 EST, you write:

<< ><< Its possible....but not worth it.
 >
 > >I have the idea of hooking a floppy drive to a ti-85.  Is this at all
 > >possible?  Probably through the link port.  What does everyone think? >>
 >
 >Why isn't it worth it? What are the alternative?
> 
> 1.  need lots of batteries
> 2.  after making 1,000,000 writes to the disk you will need a new $10 chip.
 >3.  the driver would be slow
 >4.  the entire thing would be slow
 >
 >the alternatives are the EII which will be out very soon... >>

I am just trying to consider all the alternatives. My TI-85's RAM is alway
full it would be nice to have an extra harddrive-like device to store stuff
on.