Re: TI-H: Advanced Link port


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Re: TI-H: Advanced Link port





-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Sunday, March 01, 1998 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: TI-H: Advanced Link port


>
>>Does this hook up directly on the bus?
>
>Nope.  Link port.  It is surprizingly<sp> fast!


how?

>Is is parallel data?
>
>Well, 8 lines, yes.  You could think of it as a byte in parallel, or 8
>serial lines...  :)  Or a word in Z80 ASM for the 16bit...

please explain. . .

>If so, what is
>>keeping us from using an advanced addressing system to have 256 data
inputs,
>>and 256 data outputs?
>
>I will have instructions to build up to 256 lines.  because of the way it
>works, you could have, in theory (I'm not testing it), 65536 data lines...

cool!

>Then, with enough ASM, enough memory, and enough time
>>:) we could build a calculator-controlled robot!
>
>Each 8 lines cost about $.55.

so?

>Save $300 or so bucks on
>>an onboard computer!
>
>Sure.  Just duct dape it...

super glue might work

>Have mainly hardware control, but let the calculator
>>control movementd.  You could even have a hardware-based voice recognition
>>system, using a comparator, some kind of voice library, and then input it
>>into the calc.  The calc could then in turn say, "Since he said go left, I
>>should turn this motor x% to the right, and turn these motors on".  Or
>>something like that.  I've been working on a robot ever since I got this
>>really cool book.  I was going to put a computer on it, but this would be
>>much simpler and cheaper.  I also didn't want to spend money on C++ and
>>training books (which I would never read).
>
>You could do that...  Don't expect the thing to run though, or it might
>fall.  Remember its a 6MHz 8080 and could fall!

If we used multiple calcs. . .

>Who says calculators are just
>>for math!
>my mom...  :)

mine too, she doesn't believe all the other things I can do with it!

 -Robert Brack
reb@netride.com