[A83] Re: Stupid Idea?
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[A83] Re: Stupid Idea?
Why not use a floppy drive?
Easy to carry medium, 2 MB (well, that's max) on one floppy, and if you use
fat (at the expense of 560 KB) you can even use the floppy in your PC!
> Henk Poley wrote:
>
> >>Van: Thomas Lutz <tlutz@stevens-tech.edu>
> >>
> >>Would designing an external Compact Flash drive for TI Calcs be a stupid
> >>idea? I think it would be kind of cool...Maybe not all that useful, but
> >>cool. Compact Flash cards speak PCMCIA as well as True IDE, so in theory
> >>the drive would work with any standard Hard Disk....
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Well, you can get a maximum of about 9600 bits/sec through the link-port.
> >Half-duplex... You could get a tad bit higher maybe by using "bursts",
just
> >a read- or write-loop and checking is done afterwards.
> >
> > Henk Poley <><
> >
> >
>
> Can't you go quite a lot faster then that?
> I thought only the gray link had the 9600 limit, since it had some
> circuitry to be rs232 compatible.
> Black links and homemade links are not rs232 (they just use the same
> port, but does not follow rs232 protocol)
> So they can go faster.
> At least the 89 can go quite a bit faster, I think somewhere around
30Kbit.
> The 83 should be able to go quite a bit faster then 9600 too.
> The TI link protocol does not specify speed, it is a syncronous serial
> link, so you can go as fast as the hardware can handle.
>
> Still not very fast for a HD, but at least a bit better then 9600 :)
>
> -- Olle
>
>
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