5 Aug
2008
5 Aug
'08
12:50 p.m.
Alexandre Souza wrote:
These guys have NO knowledge of how things works.
Doing a WEB BROWSER
for an APPLE II??? Besides being a stupid idea, recreating an A2 for $12
for selling for poor people is a dumb ideia on itself. Listen:
- Cellphone connection? If the guy is poor, how will he afford a
cellphone?
That's actually the easy part. Cell service in rural India is
*substantially* cheaper than most other places. There will, before too
long, be more cellphones than landlines in India.
- The computer is the easy part, a FPGA can
replicate an entire
apple//. But what about video!?
Yup, that's the hard part. Doing a built-in display for $12.
- Keyboard anyone?
Probably not a problem. There are tremendously cheap keyboards
available for OEM use now.
- Web browsing in 280 x 192?
Could be web clipping.
No. Get back to the drawing board and bring me
something USEABLE.
Maybe recycling old 486 boards and sending them to India. It is a good
destination for all those old PCs. Strip the boards, recycle the
cabinets in USA and build everything in a new cab there. What about
that? :o)
Still wouldn't work. These ideas all assume a high literacy rate, and
reliable power. Neither of which exist in rural India yet.
They need books, not computers.
Peace... Sridhar