RE: TI-H: IR LINK
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RE: TI-H: IR LINK
>From what I had read, one line transmits the clock data, one is for data, and the third is a ground line. If this is wrong, then I'm getting incorrect data from someone else, so let me know.
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From: Osma Suominen[SMTP:ozone@clinet.fi]
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 1997 4:53 PM
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: RE: TI-H: IR LINK
Christopher Kalos wrote:
> There are a few things that we have to realize aout the $4 link itself. While
> it does not combine the two data lines or run any magic like that, it does send
> its data across the in a slightly hacked way. Not to say that the $4 link
> doesn't work, but it doesn't comply to ANYTHING in RS232. But since the PC
> deals with a UART, what the calc sends is not what the PC "sees." Therefore,
> just because it looks wrong, doesn't mean it is. All that it means is that
> there's a creative way of outputting the clock and data through the system.
> perhaps what is really going on is that the MAX223 is re-converting the data,
> which across the transciever box should be totally incomprehensible to
> anything.
> Of course, if I make sense here, let me know. I'm not 100% coherent right now.
Just one correction: there's no clock and data line in the TI protocol.
Find out somewhere how it works.
-Ozone
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