Re: Disk Drive for the 85
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Re: Disk Drive for the 85
What type of drive are you going to bulid? What I would do is build an
interface for a 3.5" FD drive which is around $30 then have is write to
floppies. That way you can have potentially unlimited storage, although
1 disk would probably be more than sufficient. The only things that
might not work too well is that:
A) It might be kind of cumbersom to carry around
B) It might need quite a bit of power to operate.
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>From: Jonathan Kaus[SMTP:jkaus@COLEMAN.K12.WI.US]
>Sent: Friday, December 05, 1997 12:45 PM
>To: CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
>Subject: Re: Disk Drive for the 85
>
>I admit it could be a little expensive, but with it, a new shell that I'm
>writing
>down (not coding until the disk drive is built) that could take advantage of
>the
>drive. None of the programs would be on the calc, they would only be
>transfered to
>the calc for execution, and the TI-OS would never even know it was there. It
>would
>have all the free mem available to it, and so could be huge. It could use
>25k or so
>to leave room for the small kernal and shell (Which was loaded on starting
>the OS)
>and wouldn't even have a slight problem. When it was done, a new one could
>be
>written over it, and it would have free reign of the mem.
>Jonathan Kaus
>