Re: TI-H: TI-86


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Re: TI-H: TI-86




Well, spinterface is just a fancy version of the linkport, so probably
not.
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Andy Johnson
"Change is inevitable...
     except from vending machines"

On Thu, 05 Feb 1998 20:17:02 -0800 Peter Sahlstrom <petegs@bigfoot.com>
writes:
>
>What if you could figure out a way to just plug in GameBoy cartreges?  
>It would
>be tricky, but they have adapter thingies so that you can get the rom 
>off of the
>pack onto the computer-what if you modified one of those to go into 
>the
>calculator?  The link port would probably be to slow unless you did 
>some pretty
>fancy programming, but what about the Spinterface?  Would that work 
>for a
>connection?
>
>Jeremy Braun wrote:
>
>> I believe (not sure, but this is my understanding of it) that the 
>User Data
>> Archive is some kind of flash memory (or maybe regular RAM, but the 
>previous
>> makes a little more sense in this case I think) that the user can
>> send/retrieve files to/from.  From what I read about it, it'll be 
>like an
>> internal, integrated expander....files won't be usable directly from 
>it, but
>> they can be archived there.
>>
>> This is just supposition, not neccesarily fact.  Ask TI.
>>
>> Jeremy Braun
>>
>> ryan pogge wrote:
>>
>> > I turboed my 92 conservatively and it gets 2.5 times normal 
>speed...so
>> > thats 25Mhz,  it can theoreticly get close to 3X normal 
>speed...thats 30
>> > Mhz.  so it *probably* has the speed. the plus modual will give us 
>188k,
>> > and 380k of user data archive? anyone know what exactly that 
>means?
>> > could it be used.. if so thats an additional 500k of space+ the 
>original
>> > 60k. thats over 512k :)
>> >
>> > >you're right that it would (obviously) be slower on the calc. but 
>if it
>> > >will "make a 25MHz Mac fly" then a turboed TI-92 with the plus 
>module
>> > >might have enough speed and space. does anybody know exactly how 
>fast a
>> > >turboed 92 will run?? and you don't need sound.... it's mostly 
>just
>> > >crap anyway.
>> > >
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