Re: TI-H: RE: Color!!!

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Subject: Re: TI-H: RE: Color!!!
From: "Jon Olson" <morph@jmss.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 19:41:18 -0500
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Can you get those screen's any cheaper without the EL backlight, because it
might be cheaper to isntall it ourselves than to buy it pre-installed. This
is often the case.

-- Jon Olson

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Kalos <raptorone@geocities.com>
To: 'ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org' <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Thursday, March 12, 1998 8:33 PM
Subject: RE: TI-H: RE: Color!!!

think about that for a minute... the new gameboys have about 10 hours of
battery life due to that screen.  That's not much at all, which is why I'm
planning on working in black and white.  Even lithium-ion power is just not
enough to make anything that we come up with a practical device in color.
In addition, those will probably be VERY expensive.
Look at it this way... for the design that I'm working on, a 256x128 display
with EL built in costs $112.  That's annoyingly expensive by my standards.
Now, take a screen the quarter of that size, but make it COLOR?  That might
still be worse, regardless of the size difference.
just my two cents.
Christopher Kalos
raptorone@geocities.com
VirtuTech Developer's Group
AOL IM: Raptor1CK