Re: LZ: Floppy Drive
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Re: LZ: Floppy Drive
If I'm not mistaken the floppy for the 48 is called Drive 95 and
was developed for the 95lx. It has a serial interface and is an
intelligent device that gives you directory listings and you can
give it a file and a name and it saves it for you or retrieves by
name.
I've never actually seen one but I've seen them discussed a little
on the palmtop sig on CIS. They've never been real popular because
their slow and fairly expesive and most people just save to a pc.
I think they're 2 or 3 hundred dollars.
Barry
On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, Mel Tsai wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:52:12 -0700, you wrote:
> >You can get a 1.44Mb Floppy drive to connect to the HP48 series. Would
> >this be another avenue of expansion?
> >
>
> This depends on the floppy drive. Your "normal" IDE floppy drive is
> pretty much impossible to hook up to the TI-85. The IDE interface is
> just too darn complex!!! However, national semiconductor has come up
> with an IDE interface chip with a whole bunch of other options. Look
> up their site to get the datasheet on it. It's pretty cheap, and it
> may be the easiest way to hook a regular floppy up to the TI-85.
>
> The other two options are either PCMCIA floppy/hard drives or the
> "backpack" floppy drives. PCMCIA would be complicated, but not
> impossible. The only problem with parallel port floppy drives is that
> companies never release the protocol by which they operate, so we
> can't make any software for it.
>
> -Mel
>
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