Re: LZ: Thoughts on mass-storage systems
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Re: LZ: Thoughts on mass-storage systems
I agree. Even though I personally dont have an expander(i didnt really
feel like shelling out 60 bucks :-) ), i realize that without tools like
this, all TI-85 users are *cursed* by the TI-85's one flaw. If i knew
more about the internal workings of the calc, i would definitly try to
create some sort of expander.
So, lets not just sit around and wait for mel to find some ingenious
solution, lets help him out.
>Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 12:40:06 -0400
>To: list-zshell@lists.ticalc.org
>From: Ryan Myers <rmyers@inetarena.com>
>Subject: LZ: Thoughts on mass-storage systems
>
>Either nobody else has checked lately, or everyone's in silent
>shock... now that there are no more chips, Mel Tsai's Serial
>Flash Expander is kinda-sorta finished until he can get a new
>design, and there are only about 100 of those out there. I
>would suggest that we need to put together another form of
>mass storage, and the audio-tape idea holds promise. IMHO we
>should do it all by ZShell ( forget the TI ROM routines and
>emulating another calc, it's impossible ), simply reading in
>a set of data directly into code, and writing the data as it
>should be set to be read. Not really that hard. The Timex
>Sinclair pulled it off in 16K of ROM ( when you include all
>it's programming and other stuff in that 16K ) and 2K of RAM.
>
>We should check into this.
>
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