29 Jul
2008
29 Jul
'08
12:44 p.m.
On 29 Jul 2008 at 11:56, Eric Smith wrote:
Your average $10 hang-tag scientific calculator
doesn't, but the new $40
hp 20b calculator does. It's sold as a business/financial calculator,
but does have scientific functions. It's based on an ARM-7DTMI
processor running at 36 MHz with 134KB of memory. People on the MoHPC
forums are already discussing repurposing it, and have set up a Wiki for
developer information.
Has there been any talk of repurposing DTV "set top" converter boxes?
I've got one here with an RS-232 connector on it that responded with
a BSOD display, complete with register dump and MMU status when we
had a power glitch. The video and audio capabilities should be
pretty good for the price.
Cheers,
Chuck