Re: TI-H: TI-KEYBOARD AND A FEW OTHER IDEAS

To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: TI-H: TI-KEYBOARD AND A FEW OTHER IDEAS
From: Josha Foust <foustj@kansas.net>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 20:34:53 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <970602200201_843973013@emout19.mail.aol.com> from "WindowsWiz@aol.com" at Jun 2, 97 08:03:37 pm
Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org

> 
> Osma Suominen wrote:
> >> ...And I know that Mel Tsai is working on an Expander that uses a memory
> >> chip, but why not build one that uses standard PCMCIA Flash Memory cards?
> >> It's worth a shot...
> >
> >I think a PCMCIA slot is all too complicated to be fitted on a TI.
> 
> Well, why not?  it would sure be easy to swap out the memory cards, for
> example, and let a friend borrow it...or perhaps you could have seperate
> cards, with one for puzzle games, one for action games, one for programs,
> etc.
> 
> And as far as fitting it goes, a standard commercial card drive could be used
> with just a few modifications to the connection.  Since the protocol for
> accessing these things is widely available, it would be a little easier to
> write the software than for something without a widely known protocol.
> 
> -Brandon Turok
> http://members.aol.com/windowswiz/
> 


This was discussed about a week ago and it came out that the interface would
be about as big as the calculator and very tough to interface with (not to
mention the cost)

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