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- From: hdev@dutiai.tudelft.nl (Hans de Vreught)
- Subject: Re: Taking exams? (was: Extending the IR Port)
- Message-ID: <hdev.727606965@dutiai>
- Sender: news@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl (Dutiws News Administration)
- Organization: Delft University of Technology
- References: <20JAN199318324539@scsuc.ctstateu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 09:02:45 GMT
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- makovsky@scsuc.ctstateu.edu (MAKOFSKY,STEVEN) writes:
-
- >Does anyone have any information on extending the range of the IR port? A
- >couple of co-workers and I would like to try an experiment with the HP48sx,
- >and would like to achieve a transmit range of at least 6 feet. Has anyone
- >been successful in hooking a small radio transmitter to the serial port?
- >Im curious, so if anyone has accomplished this, please let me know..
-
- Hm..., six feet? Is that the distance between you and your neighbour during
- your next exam :-)? But more seriously: this will be the next *major* problem
- with calcs like the HP48 during exams.
-
- The range of the HP95LX is much larger. I can use it as a RC through my
- entire room.
- --
- Hans de Vreught | John von Neumann:
- hdev@dutiba.twi.tudelft.nl | Young man, in mathematics
- Delft University of Technology (TWI-ThI) | you don't understand things,
- The Netherlands | you just get used to them.
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