Re: TI-H: ti-turbo
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C.J. Oster wrote:
>
> >Zenon Lynx wrote:
> >>
> >> Someone (maybe Mel) said that the calc is now running at 6Mhz, and if you
> >> turbo it or do something else to over speed it, it will be overclocked and
> >> will run faster than 6MHz like say 18MHz. Just regurgitating what other
> >> techs have said...
> >>
> The clock does run at 6Mhz, but there is a capacitor that forces it to
> wait between each clock cycle. This capacitor slows it down to 1Mhz. Why
> TI did this, no one knows (or at least no one has told me. If some body
> knows, I'd love for you to share the info with me), but the 82, 81, and 83
> don't have it. (again, only to my knowledge, it's just what I've been
> told).
I'm pretty sure the 82 and maybe 83 have it, because on ticalc.org, in
the turbo docs, it says that the same proceedure can be used on the 82,
the capacitor is just in a different spot.
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