Re: DOS to TI-92 Link ???
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At 02:22 PM 7/24/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Thomas G. Welch wrote:
>>
>> I have laid out $ 400.00 to buy two TI-92's (one for each of my sons who
>> will be taking Pre-Calc) and cannot get the TI-92's to upload or
>> download information with a DOS machine.
>>
>> We made the cable which used pins 11 & 12 with a diode whose cathode
>> points towards pins 2 and 3 respectively and used pin 20 as shield
>> (signal) ground. Everything seen in the schematic has been built into
>> this link RS-232C cord, but no data can be transferred in either
>> direction using the link program that is currently available.
>>
>> TI's official attitude (as written in a reply to one of my questions of
>> them), is that the "software for the TI-92 link will be for Windows and
>> Mac applications only, no DOS version is planned." All of our machines
>> here at home are 8088 or 286's and we cannot use Windows. TI seems as if
>> they could care less.
>>
>> My feelings at this point are that if we cannot get the TI-92's to
>> communicate, then I am going to take them back and ask for a credit to
>> our VISA card. What else is out there that will do what a TI-92 will and
>> will still allow downloading/uploading to a DOS platform ???
>>
>> Any comments ot suggestions ???
>>
>> Many Thanks.........Tom
>Not to sound like a snob, but it really is time to get Windows. You
>can't expect software manufacturers to cater to the outdated. You
>should be able to pick up a cheap 486 for around $500, just a little
>more than you paid for those two calcs. A 486 can easily run Windows
>3.x, and maybe even Windows 95.
Your answer is irrevelant. He wants to connect to the 92 in DOS. He does
not want to get a new computer nor does he want to run Windows. I tire
quickly of these responses. Don't respond unless you actually have an
answer for him.
Windows sucks!
Get Linux, or stick with DOS!
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