Re: TI-H: floppy drive

To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: TI-H: floppy drive
From: gussie@alaska.net (Grant Stockly)
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 18:54:46 -0700
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>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.

The EII will give you 512k (half a MB, .000512 a GB, .000000512 of a TB,
.000000000512 of a NB and so on).  Soon the EII will offer 1MB.  Which is
.001 of a GB, .000001 of a TB, .000000001 of a NB...  ;)