Re: TI-H: floppy drive

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Subject: Re: TI-H: floppy drive
From: gussie@alaska.net (Grant Stockly)
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 13:58:29 -0700
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>In a message dated 98-03-20 15:01:36 EST, you write:
>
><< Its possible....but not worth it.
>
> >I have the idea of hooking a floppy drive to a ti-85.  Is this at all
> >possible?  Probably through the link port.  What does everyone think? >>
>
>Why isn't it worth it? What are the alternative?

1.  need lots of batteries
2.  after making 1,000,000 writes to the disk you will need a new $10 chip.
3.  the driver would be slow
4.  the entire thing would be slow

the alternatives are the EII which will be out very soon...

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