TI-H: Re: Re: Melody of TI CALC comment and questions
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TI-H: Re: Re: Melody of TI CALC comment and questions
Thanks for your replies!
Would it be possible to convert an 89 HW1.0 to HW2.0?
just swap a cheap thing? or custom thing?... or "just" is way too weak of a
word
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Peterson" <happy_cobbler@bigfoot.com>
To: <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 1:37 PM
Subject: TI-H: Swapping the new eZ80 for the Z80? and other stuff
>
>
> Ok. I want to talk about back lighting and overclocking... and
alternative
> power sources.
> And processor swaping. At least we won't be talking about dead parties.
>
> ************
> Some of you may know that there are LED backlights that use woven
> monofilament to create the area.
> We would be able to hook up a multicolor LED to this backlight... and use
> the LED controler and a trick similar to the greyscale trick to make a
> backlit color screen. everything on the screen would be black except for
the
> part with the color that is currently on! The refresh rate would be
pretty
> bad, and it would have to be viewed in the dark... but I think it would be
> fun to try!
>
>
>
> ***********
> I want to overclock my TI89 (w/ 68000). I have not seen any plans for
this.
>
> * does it use resistance capacitor clocking like the z80 calcs?
> *anybody done it?
> *************
>
> Ooohh... Zilog has released some newer varients of the Z80... if we
replaced
> the z80 calc's processor with one of these, would be be able to use the
> additional features with TI's hardware? I'd like to get some Hardware
> floating point in my calc...
>
> *******************
> Also, has anybody found a small *recharable* battery that I could replace
my
> 4AAAs with so I can use the extra space to install extras and keep the
outer
> appearance the same?
>
> *************
> (I have an 85, an 86 and an 89... also a HP48g if anybody cares)
>
> *******
>
> AP happy_cobbler@bigfoot.com
>
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