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.



The cable's just a normal 2.5mm stereo plug.  Diodes and stuff is reserved
for the links built for communication between the calc and the computer.


"This is the most logical route, Captain"
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: From: spinkham@MONMOUTH.COM
: To: Zenon
: Subject: Re: You can get the 2.5mm plug at R.S.
: Date: November 14, 1996 4:28 AM
:
:
: Greg Hill <ghill@lab.tech.bhs.davis.k12.ut.us> wrote:
:
: >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!)
: That's funny.  It worked when I tried said adapter w/ my headphones.
: I'm one of the aligator clip junkies, though :-> (mine is a later
: model.  Maybe that makes a diffrence.)
:
: >Call Mouser Electronics (www.mouser.com) and get a 72" cable, 2.5mm
: >stereo plug on one end, tinned wires on the other end. And it'll cost
: >you $3. Beats TI for price and length. :) They've probably also got a
: >2.5mm to 1/8" adapter..
:  Is the calc to calc cable just a standard cable, or does it have
: built in diodes and such(it has a BIG end on the plug.)  I just got my
: ti-85, so I'm kinda new at this.
:
:
:
:
:
: >--
: >Greg Hill
: >http://braves.bhs.davis.k12.ut.us/
: >ghill@lab.tech.bhs.davis.k12.ut.us
: >greg_hill@email.state.ut.us


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