[A83] Re: Stupid Idea?


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[A83] Re: Stupid Idea?



> Van: Olle Hedman <alh@home.se>
>> Henk Poley wrote:
>>>Van: Thomas Lutz <tlutz@stevens-tech.edu>
>>>
>>>Would designing an external Compact Flash drive for TI Calcs be a stupid
>>>idea? I think it would be kind of cool...Maybe not all that useful, but
>>>cool. Compact Flash cards speak PCMCIA as well as True IDE, so in theory
>>>the drive would work with any standard Hard Disk....
>>
>>Well, you can get a maximum of about 9600 bits/sec through the link-port.
>>Half-duplex... You could get a tad bit higher maybe by using "bursts",
just
>>a read- or write-loop and checking is done afterwards.
>>
>>	Henk Poley <><
>
> Can't you go quite a lot faster then that?

Okay, sending a file to my Ti83 with TiLP, gives me a top of 2kb/s.

That's ~= 14k4 modem

	Henk Poley <><