Connectivity Kit Editor enhancements

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Quote:Best connectivity kit enhancement possible: Add a mass storage device mode on the calculator so that no more connectivity kit software is needed. We just plug the calc in the computer, then it asks us if we want to go in mass storage device mode, then we can easily send files from Windows explorer. Once we are done, we press Esc on the calc then it checks the files to ensure they have the valid format.

Agree as far as pure file transfer is concerned. MSD protocol (which is specifically designed for that purpose, after all) would be faster, and easier to use, than HID protocol through an extra program.

HP could have made the Prime to support regular file transfers through MSD protocol. However, they would probably have had to complement it by something else for the functionality they wanted to implement:

Quote:If Casio started doing it in 2010 (with the fx-CG10/20) and is still doing it in 2013 (fx-CP400), then why HP and TI can't?

Both the Nspire and the Prime/39gII support remote operations (e.g. for classrooms) which do not have (clear) file type. For instance, receiving screenshots, sending keypresses, setting calculator date and time, or (on the Prime) a two-way chat. Mapping those operations (or possibly more convincingly, other yet undiscovered / future operations, as far as the Prime is concerned) exclusively onto a file/sector-oriented protocol such as MSD may be - not impossible, but unwanted - for some reason.
I don't have insider information to support this guess.

I'm not aware the Prizm supports remote screenshots, remote keypress triggers or two-way chat. I can't find any source indicating that the new, overly expensive, crappy fx-CP400 can do any of those either.
Classpad Manager is some sort of teacher software, whose description paints it as a computer version of the Classpad (like the Nspire student software or Prime emulator), but does not mention non-file remote monitoring and control features. Relatedly, there's no cradle or wireless hat for the Prizm or fx-CP400, AFAICT.