Re: Idea for calc upgrade
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Re: Idea for calc upgrade
How so? Also where can I find some info?
-James, N9XLC
-jrhall@infocom.com
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From: The Pletchers <bpspcp-travelin@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
To: CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM <CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM>
Date: Thursday, February 05, 1998 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: Idea for calc upgrade
>Been there, done that.
>
>At 08:11 AM 2/5/98 -0500, James Hall wrote:
>>What if someone could make a pic (micro-controller) that uses the CBL
>>functionability in most TI-calcs with a link port to provide a memory
>>upgrade (of a sorts) plus other functions (sound, serial, clock/calender,
>>temp) to the calcs without any asm programming on calc. Any data that you
>>need to use could be stored on variables and anything you want it to do
you
>>store into control variables. Plus you could have it store stuff that you
>>send to it over the link protocol and have it send stuff back to you.
>>Something like this could be used to store several backups of your calc
>>(like zshell, and other shell systems) plus any strings.
>>And with an interface using variables you could write basic programs that
>>could use the interface.
>>My only question (since I thought this up in a moment of boredom in
algebra
>>and I haven't found any docs on cbl and link port stuff (no manual)) is
>>could something like this be made to work?
>>
>>
>> -James, N9XLC
>> -jrhall@infocom.com
>>
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