Re: TI-H: Why expander? Why compress? Use a FDD!

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Re: TI-H: Why expander? Why compress? Use a FDD!


Well...first of all, it isn't a floppy drive.
Second, the company isn't Pison, it's Psion.
Third, i think this is still a viable option, but i'm not exactly sure how
the devices interface with the Palmtop (picture isn't very clear)...It looks
like it uses more than 3 pins, on the other hand, it also appears to use a
lot fewer than a full FDD interface. They sell two models of the disks.
Flash SSD's and RAM SSD's. As is implied by the name, one of them uses
EEPROM, and the other uses RAM. The flash ssd's come in models ranging from
128K to 8MB, and the RAM models range from 128K to 1MB. If you want more
info, take a look for yourself:

http://www.psion.com/computers/psionscssds.html


-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Monday, January 19, 1998 6:07 PM
Subject: RE: TI-H: Why expander? Why compress? Use a FDD!


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>Can you tell us when you find the page?
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>>Ok...heres he plan, If I find the webpage for this FDD for a Pison
>>Palmtop, you get someone to buy the thing and make software. The FDD is
>>hooked to a 2.5mm (I think?) stereo jack, the same as the calculator. If
>>someone can do something with this then the prob is solved...The only
>>prob is that it uses the Pison Protocal...it's plug and play, plug it
>>in, turn it on, and it's under the C folder (yea...c:\ :) And emulating
>>this protocal at a high speed (~11.5K) may be a problem.
>>
>>>From:  Michael Cook[SMTP:MBCook@concentric.net]
>>>Sent:  Saturday, January 17, 1998 8:29 PM
>>>To:    TI-H
>>>Subject:       TI-H: Why expander? Why compress? Use a FDD!
>>>
>>><<File: Michael Bryan Cook.vcf>>
>>>    Hello. We all want more mem for our calcs. But why
>>>should we use mem chips that have limited capacity? If we
>>>were to interface a 3.5" disk drive, we could carry around
>>>DISKS of games, and at ~6K each, that is over 225 games!
>>
>>
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>Grant Stockly
>AppleCyber - http://www.alaska.net/~gussie
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