Re: TI-H: New expander

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Subject: Re: TI-H: New expander
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:40:17 -0800
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>Hey grant,
>
>now with this stuff about using dram instead of flash chips, and about
>interfacing ide drives, instead of just modifying the e2, why not make a
>completely new expander? This is a small list I compiled of things that I
>would like to see in the new expander:
>
>1) Cheap DRAM chips (1 to 2 megs)
>2) Plug in an IDE hd
>3) Lower cost
>4) I2C interface (for multiuser and stuff)
>5) BackupMaster -> have the ability to switch between a few banks, so you
>can have a bank for the 85, a bank for an 83, so on.)
>6) Maybe an improved expansion port
>7) Whatever other stuff people have in mind
>
>sorry about not having the scancodes up, but i had school stuff to do. my
>bad. i'm going to do it right now.


I'm going to post ALL of the AVR code so it doesn't end up like Mel and
"Bryan"'s "E"s.  :)

We could even interface DRAM chips to the link port directly...  (Maybe
not, but...)

Follow-Ups:

Re: TI-H: New expander

From: "Matthew H. Fogle" <foglem@cec2.aps.edu>

References:

TI-H: New expander

From: fuzz@pinecrest.edu (David Norelid)