There have been underwater laptops for years now. In fact you can take a standard laptop running Micro$oft WinDoze 2000 and it will work as well underwater as well as it will out.

Ciaran

I should probably add that no special hardware is required - you just need the usual 2 Gigs of RAM, a 700MHz Pentium III and 100 Gigs of hard disk space.

Ciaran

laptop != calculator :)

--BlueCalx

He he. That depends on how much you overclock it, doesn't it? I've seen a ti80 running at ~6GHz. OK, it blew up (literally) after a few seconds (I'm surprised it lasted that long) but still... Looking at it the other way, anyone not using a real operating system (see also: Linux, Red Hat, Zoot, KDE) has turned their laptop into a calculator.

Ciaran

When did KDE become an operating system? :)

-Erik

If you really want to be correct:

Linux isn't an OS, it's a kernel
Redhat isn't an OS, it's a GNU/Linux distribution

And as for Zoot, I haven't the foggiest of clues as
to what *that* is.

:)

-- ar0n

Zoot is a build of Red Hat.

--BlueCalxz0r00l0rd3z0r3z

6 GHz? How did you do THAT?

Must've been the jumper of doom - I would wager it was... the size of Sacramento.

A crystal.

I am sorry, you can not burn your processor by overcloking it. It just looses the frequency and stop. Let get cooler and change the crystal frequency to a normal one.
If you have done it properly, your calculator should start again.

Some chips will die if you put too high frequencies through them. One of the old 68k chips had an undocumented opcode that would toggle all the I/O pins on and off as fast as possible. You could melt the insulation on the wires inside old Macs doing this...

The calc definitely doesn't work now. The screen has a huge black mark behind it and a load of resistors, capacitors and so on look extremely sorry for themselves.

Ciaran

Is anyone daring/stupid enough to test that undocumented opcode on an 89/92/92+? Personally, I would recommend testing on an old 92 if someone has an almost dead one around.

My last computer with Microsoft Windows 98 worked just as good on fire as it did normally =D

hell, I'm running the final release code for win millenium, and I can't crash it with a sixteen-pound sledge...

try something like a ms office 95 beta if you want to crash it...or a twenty-pound sledgehammer

well now, isnt this useful?

Oh, absolutely! I've always wanted to be able to do my homework in the shower! Now all I need is waterproof paper...

Well, I suppose you could laminate the paper. . .

"Oh Smithers, how am I supposed to do my Junior Jumble now?"

proConsul

...if you laminated the paper, what would you write with? or would you just re-laminate it after every word?

no...space pen...writes underwater on laminated paper :)

oh, of course, silly me...

Just use an expo marker, I'm sure you could steal one from one of your teachers :-)

now there is paper that is water proof

now how do you think scuba divers recorded info before they had these glorious under water calcs
hehehe

We're a really small UK co and have developed a laser printable and photocopiable waterproof paper which you can write on, come shower come sauna!
Also have just got on manufacturing chocks a small cheap waterproof calculator.