30 Jan
2002
30 Jan
'02
11:47 p.m.
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Well, it's a tiny little calculator based on a 10 MHz 68000 and 188KB of
RAM, and 320 KB Flash ROM. It has a QWERTY keyboard and a 240X180 (?)
screen. Check out http://www.ticalc.org/ and look under TI-92+.
Looks way cool. The 68000 is one of my favorite chips, too. The
bad news is the price... I just looked up several auctions on ePay
and find that they auction for more than my iOpener or my Audrey. :-(
I was a math major, so my parents popped the $200 at the time to buy it.
Regular retail now is around $160. It has *powerful* calculator
functions.
My smallest
UNIX box right now is my TI-92 calculator.
Explain explain explain! Still... if I ever run across one for under $100
(hah!), I'll probably
pick it up and throw UNIX on it.
With that tiny screen, can you still play rogue on it? NetHack? I'd
throw a Z-machine interpreter on it if there were enough room... Zork
anyone? (I suppose one could port a Z-machine interpreter to assembler;
the data files start around 90KB for the oldest Infocom games - that
begs the question, though: does it have a RAM disk with a filesystem?)
Good question. I've never looked how storage is allocated. I'll look it
up and let you know.
Peace... Sridhar