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ericjenott

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    Comment #43791634

    It is an "XT clone" in the sense that the term was used back in the 1980s. In that era, there were a whole bunch of "IBM PC clones" "IBM XT clones" "IBM AT clones", all different i…

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    Comment #43790560

    The latency from keypress to screen is 0.3 seconds for the first keypress, and about 0.4 seconds for all keypresses after that, until the next pause in typing. This device is not, …

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    Comment #43790429

    I'm the guy who built this. I use the windows key to open up the run-time settings menu where you can do things like mount floppy disk images, turn on or off different emulated sou…

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    Comment #43777753

    Actually 100 hours is an understatement. It'll go at least 200 hours of constant active use on a single charge, even if you don't use power saving mode, and can easily get 500 hour…

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    Comment #43777728

    You've touched on one of my favorite things about using this. There's so much software easily available for it that I could never even try it all even in 10 lifetimes. And it's eas…

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    Comment #43773784

    Hi, I'm Eric, Evertop's creator. The screen has a refresh rate of about 350ms, or almost 3 times per second. Of course the device is smart enough to not refresh the screen unless t…

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