Re: Thanks for the graphlink controversy

To: CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
Subject: Re: Thanks for the graphlink controversy
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@ALASKA.NET>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 21:22:31 -0700
Reply-To: Grant Stockly <gussie@ALASKA.NET>

Thanks for the controversy about controversy...

>> "Band-Aid", "Xerox machine", etc.  The people that ask for graphlink plans
>> DON'T CARE that the homemade version isn't a replica of TI's Graph Link,
>> as long as it works.
>
>I totally agree. After I got my 86, I went searching for web sites with
>calculator (ti-86) information. Some people are just too incompetent to
>visit yahoo or something and search for: TI-86, etc. I stumbled onto
>TI-calc.org, and ti-phile's website, downloaded many BASIC programs and
>learned from them from the awesome TI GraphLink Program. I've learned a
>lot by reading, because I _cared_. I wish the rest of the people who
>really want what they're looking for spend some actual time searching.
>It wasn't that hard. Besides, how do people find this newsgroup anyway?
>
>Okay, in regards to the subject. You probably don't remember me, but I
>did post numerous times in the TI message boards/graph link about trying
>to get my friend's graph link to work on my computer. I went through
>many days of frustration, and after still trying that one bios_fix
>program, it still didn't work. I began to search for alternatives. I
>built my parallel port cable and it works. Does everything I need it to
>do, well maybe except hook up to a modem and log on to a BBS. ahh, but
>it works. :)
>
>-(:P Modem Boy d:)-
>-(:P -=TI-86=- d:)-