Re: Idea for calc upgrade
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Re: Idea for calc upgrade
I've got Program and backup transfering working on an 83, 85, and 82. I
just received my clock chip so I'm going to add it soon...It shouldn't be
that long untill its done. It will also receive backups.
>What if someone could make a pic (micro-controller) that uses the CBL
>functionability in most TI-calcs with a link port to provide a memory
>upgrade (of a sorts) plus other functions (sound, serial, clock/calender,
>temp) to the calcs without any asm programming on calc. Any data that you
>need to use could be stored on variables and anything you want it to do you
>store into control variables. Plus you could have it store stuff that you
>send to it over the link protocol and have it send stuff back to you.
>Something like this could be used to store several backups of your calc
>(like zshell, and other shell systems) plus any strings.
>And with an interface using variables you could write basic programs that
>could use the interface.
>My only question (since I thought this up in a moment of boredom in algebra
>and I haven't found any docs on cbl and link port stuff (no manual)) is
>could something like this be made to work?
>
>
> -James, N9XLC
> -jrhall@infocom.com
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Grant Stockly
AppleCyber - http://www.alaska.net/~gussie