TI-84+ Graphing Calculator

[RobotGymnast]

Are there drivers in the kernel for this? If so, under what are they located? Do I need external drivers?

Thanks

[BradN]

USB or other connection? I think USB is done directly through, eg, tilp with libusb. I do remember there being a driver at one time, at least for the parallel adapter, maybe for the USB as well, but I don't think the USB kernel driver is used anymore - libusb is more portable.

Those parallel adapters always bugged me, why use a parallel port for a serial connection? Casio got it right with their calculators (well, at least _that_ particular aspect...) They even had little mini headphone (2.5mm) connector crossover cables for between calculators, haha.

[RobotGymnast]

It's a USB adapter. I ended up finding a few "Texas Instrument" options under Device Drivers, but they were all long model numbers; I enabled them just to be safe.

Hmm.. KDE says no devices are plugged in.. Maybe I just haven't learned to sync it yet.

[BradN]

You probably end up using a program like tilp (should be in portage). TI calculators don't expose a storage device like most modern things, so you won't see the calculator's files anywhere in linux, only in a special program. It takes a little getting used to tilp but it could be worse, trust me.

I was the first person to run custom assembly code on the Casio Algebra FX series, and their real programs are treated as separate read-only DOS fat12 disk images while all user data is a custom RAM filesystem with provisions for writing serially to flash for archive. Oh yeah, and main menu screen shots (best way to describe how the menu is stored - it's not individual icons) and mappings for drives > rom/flash slots must be sent to the calculator with the update. Try writing a transfer utility to adequately handle all that!

[RobotGymnast]