RE: A92: 92 external kbd

To: "'assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org'" <assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org>
Subject: RE: A92: 92 external kbd
From: "Williams, Matt" <Williams.Matt@con-way.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 09:41:49 -0800
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This will really be useful once the TI-89 comes out because it won't
have a keyboard.

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>From: 	Ritchie Argue[SMTP:ciphyr@usa.net]
>Reply To: 	assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org
>Sent: 	Wednesday, March 25, 1998 9:38 AM
>To: 	assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org
>Subject: 	Re: A92: 92 external kbd
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>As far as I can see, the 92 only automatically supports ascii chars, so you
>can't even press f1, or arrow keys or anything.  What I was hoping to do is
>mix the supported remote mode with a driver that can catch special packets
>that will be defined for the rest of the keys, and then pass it on to the
>os.  In this way we should be able to use an external keyboard entirely,
>without needing the onboard one.  This isn't _really_ that useful, since
>the main thing that you'll be doing with an ext.kbd is writing text files,
>but I would like to be able to support arrow keys etc.
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>Ritchie
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