RE: TI-H: flash rom cards and hard drive experiment

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Subject: RE: TI-H: flash rom cards and hard drive experiment
From: Peter Matthews <Peter@snap.clara.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 13:42:40 +0100
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I'm fairly sure I saw a schematic a while ago for hooking a playstation memory card to an 8x calc, but I'm not sure how it worked!!!

Pete

-----Original Message-----
From:	Grant Stockly [SMTP:gussie@stockly.com]
Sent:	09 July 1999 09:11
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Subject:	Re: TI-H: flash rom cards and hard drive experiment


>i had an idea (an expensive one too) and it was to use flash rom cards to
>work like a hard disk in a computer. Everyone here seems to know enough
>about memory chips and stuff like that and it would be a change to hear
>something other than arguments about what computer type is better. I know it
>would be expensive and i don't want much (preferably none) hate mail about
>it being expensive or anything but if anyone has got the money and the skill
>and knowledge, maybe you could give it a try.


People do it all of the time.  Look for EEPROM based booting information on
the internet.  With some work, the same can be done using a type of flash.

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