Re: Serial!


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Re: Serial!



It would be a good idea if we had space...  A uart needs 8 I/O lines just
for sending/recieving bytes...not to mention the other I/O lines needed.

P.S.  You can build an 8bit sound card that goes to your calc for under
$10...I'm in 8th grade, I see no reason to go to MIT to figure out that!...
;)

It would be 'possible', but not reasonable.

>I don't know if anyone's thought about this before.
>A while back I read on someones page about someone at MIT
>successfully opening a ti-85(?) and connecting a sound card or something to
>the bus..
>I got to thinking while at work today, What about connecting a
>UART chip (for a serial port) to an unused address on the bus?!
>Then we wouldn't have to worry about figuring out how to duplicate (or worry
>about paying for) a graphlink for connection to a modem!
>(and we could have different baud rates too!)
>Of course we would have to rewrite any term programs to use the special
>address but what do you think?
>
>     -James, N9XLC
>     -jrhall@infocom.com