Re: TI-H: Why expander? Why compress? Use a FDD!
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Re: TI-H: Why expander? Why compress? Use a FDD!
Ah...well that's a nice...uhm...number...for...uhm...a...price...
I don't think i'm gonna spend $160 on a floppy drive for my calc...i can
build an EEPROM expander for a LOT less...
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Martis <bungix@hotmail.com>
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: TI-H: Why expander? Why compress? Use a FDD!
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>I don't want to sound like a fag or anything, but when I ment floppy I
>ment floppy...the company is purple soft. product is cyclone...
>http://www.purplesoft.com/cycl.htm
>
>>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
>>
>>
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