Re: You can get the 2.5mm plug at R.S.
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Actually, no. I have used the Radio shack adapter myself with no
problems... you need to get the STEREO converter, and strip off a little
bit of the plastic on the 2.5 end so it fits snugly.
At 06:47 11/9/96 GMT, Cajun 'Net Crusier wrote:
>Matthew Twomey <mtwomey@clc.cc.il.us> wrote in article
><55o7ak$ele@news.clc.cc.il.us>...
>> I have posted this again and again. Lately I've heard people using
>aligator
>> clicps to attach their link cables! People you can get a 2.5mm plus at
>Radio
>> Shack - ther don't have this exactly but they *do* have a 1/8 inch to
>2.5mm
>> stereo plug. You get this and make your link with an 1/8 plug instead.
>This
>> way you are all set to plug headphones into the TI as well when you want
>to
>> play Pong or any other game with sound!
>>
>
>I have already tried this and it doesn't work. The connectors are spaced
>slightly differently on the real TI-xx cable. It ends up shorting two of
>them together.
>
>Just call TI and buy a unit to unit cable for $6 and make two link cables
>(Sell one!)
>
>
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