Re: TI-H: My TI92 Hardware Homepage : RTLink?


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Re: TI-H: My TI92 Hardware Homepage : RTLink?




It's not common knowledge, judging by the date on its zip file, I
didn't know that this plan was a hoax. That's because I started to
take part in the ti community around 1997. It was enticing to try it
though.




---Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net> wrote:
>
> 
> Its is a huge butt uglu hoax.  Thats all there is to it.
> 
> I thought that was common knowlege?  TIcalc needs to take that down...
> 
> Grant
> 
> 
> 
> >The only answer I can give to you is just the first question. If you
> >want a reference book of electronic symbols, I use radio shack's
book.
> >I forgot what it is called, but it is green colored, it is made of
> >cheap paper, and the area size is pretty big.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >---David Knaack <dknaack@geocities.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> From: Christian Auer <ca1@gmx.net>
> >> >My TI92 Hardware Homepage has been updated...
> >> >http://members.xoom.com/Ti92/index.html
> >>
> >>
> >> You mention on the radio link page that you don't understand some
of
> >the
> >> symbols used in the schematic, like which ones?  He is using those
> >little
> >> trapezoids for transistors and in one place he has a cap drawn with
> >the
> >> gap filled with slanted lines.  Not sure what that means.
> >>
> >> I have three questions about this circuit.  I'm no EE, my
> >electronics skill
> >> doesn't extend much above the basics, so I may be totally off,
but a
> >couple
> >> of things looked a bit strange to me.
> >>
> >> First, and this is a big one, there is no indication that the
> >separate power
> >> supply for this thing has a common ground with the calculator.  He
> >> explicitly
> >> mentions that the link's ground cable is not to be connected.  That
> >means
> >> that 5v on the red wire (relative to to the calc ground) isn't
> >necessarily
> >> 5v relative to the RTLink's ground.
> >>
> >> Second, the white wire is connected directly to battery negative ??
> >Doesn't
> >> that make it kind of hard to send half of the bits and ack the
other
> >half?
> >> I don't see how the RTLink can ack any bits received from the calc.
> >>
> >> Third, well, I forget what the third was, but last I knew there
was no
> >> working
> >> radio link (other than perhaps Grants, but I haven't heard of
anyone
> >else
> >> who has successfully built that).  Is this one of the hoax plans,
or
> >does
> >> this thing really work?
> >>
> >> DK
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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