Re: You can get the 2.5mm plug at R.S.


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Re: You can get the 2.5mm plug at R.S.



"Cajun 'Net Crusier" <cajuncru@sprynet.com> wrote:








>> 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!)


I think there are two types of ports on the 85.  After TI figured out
people could make their own by doing this, they changed the spacing
slightly.  My 85 (about two years old) works perfectly with the above
suggested method.


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