LF: Upgrading this BAD BOY!!!!!!!!!

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LF: Upgrading this BAD BOY!!!!!!!!!

As far as the physical possibility goes, I just took apart my ti92 to check
out it's guts.  The cpu COULD be safely removed in about an hour's work and
replaced.  It would take a tiny solder tip and a desoldering iron.  (I might
then mount a socket on the board for future upgrades)  There is a LOT of
room inside the thing.  You could probably build an INTERNAL sound card if
you had the desire.   If I did jsut want to replace the chip, I could also
safely solder a new chip to it.  There also exists a 33 mHz version of the
68000 with no extra features.  It would probably be safer, but the 66mHz is
rated at 5-10 times faster than the stock chip.  That would
RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Can you imagine the possibilities?  It would be at least
286 speed.  I believe that the 68000 is around 8086 speed, or close to the
Zilog z380.  Any ideas about how to burn a custom eprom to create new ROS's
(Ram Operating Systems).  Hey, here is an idea:  Tape bakup drive/1.44
floppy drive.  Or how about external D-ram acting as a ramdrive?  at  $7 per
meg, this could prove a very attractive way to store large files.  The 68k
series can address at least 4 gig of ram, so how could we exploit this?  Any
ideas? 
Erik Buehler
Email me at: erikb@ksu.ksu.edu
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