[TI-H] Re: I remember hearing of a ti hub project a few years ago...
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[TI-H] Re: I remember hearing of a ti hub project a few years ago...
Well, I'm not much of a programmer in C, but a typical calculator can be the
"router" with some simple software. This program has to be active and bresent
on all calcs, but just remeber, It isn't the hub the does all of the routing,
there are the routing softwares!
Dave W wrote:
> The point of the 'hub', then, if I understand correctly, would be to act as
> a mailman and send packets to the correct calculator, i.e., if you have 4
> calcs, calc 1 can send a packet to calc 4 without 2 or 3 hearing the packet
> also. Router?
>
> >From: Nick Peaden <nitrocloud@netzero.net>
> >Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
> >To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
> >Subject: [TI-H] Re: I remember hearing of a ti hub project a few years
> >ago...
> >Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 09:23:29 -0700
> >
> >
> >I do remember that, and the concept is quite simple. If you wan tI could
> >make
> >one in about one hour, although all participants either have to be one
> >sender
> >and three recievers in this case, since TI Basic isn't good enough to
> >support
> >such a hub.
> >
> >Giles Pollock wrote:
> >
> > > I seem to remember a project by someone to make a hub for ti
> >calculators...
> > > anyone still remember that?
> > > Anyway, i had an idea, why build a hub when you can use a desktop (with
> >usb
> > > port) to do all the traffic routing using programs, and have enough
> >ports
> > > using the usb port with a few usb to parallel port devices... you would
> > > need to make a little asm program so you could choose who you wanted to
> > > send files to, and you could even make games for it if you knew how (i
> > > dont).... anyone got any opinions?
> >
> >
> >
>
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