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 23:15:43 EST
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<< ><< ><< 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...  ;) >>

I am aware of what the expanders are and am awaiting its release.