[A83] Re: Stupid Idea?
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[A83] Re: Stupid Idea?
Yes, and you'll only need a usable 2.5mm connector...
> I totally agree with David Phillips' idea... if you've ever tried to make
an
> OS .. or read around.. you will have noticed that making a floppy driver
is
> loads more complicated than IDE and ATAPI.... and all of these would
require
> "mobile" parts, heads .... which usually require lots more electrical
energy
> to operate than silicon storage ... but a way you could make it interface
> with the pc is easy: make the main "box" have a minijack socket, so to
> connect ot the calc you use unit-2-unit cable, and you could also plug it
> directly to a graphlink, and have a PC prog to send/rec from the "box"...
> if you make it good enough, you can make it fake being a ti calc (83?) so
> tigraphlink/ticonnect could be used to manage the files...
>
> -Nicolas Gilles
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Phillips" <david@acz.org>
> To: <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 23:24
> Subject: [A83] Re: Stupid Idea?
>
>
> > Ronald Teune writes:
> > > Why not use a floppy drive?
> > > Easy to carry medium, 2 MB (well, that's max) on one floppy, and if
> > > you use fat (at the expense of 560 KB) you can even use the floppy in
> > > your PC!
> >
> > Floppies are slow and unreliable. They require a lot of power compared
to
> a
> > memory chip. Physically, they are large, clunky and heavy. They
require
> a
> > lot of circuitry to be usable.
> >
> > The floppy drive idea is horrible.
> >
> > --
> > David Phillips <david@acz.org>
> > http://david.acz.org/
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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