Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life
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Re: Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life
#2> solar power
Tangential, but what happened to Intel Claremont, the solar-powered CPU? Did this project go anywhere or was it only a tech demo?
Re: Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life
#3Take my money.
No, really, this is precisely the sort of thing I've wanted for ages, and I don't have the time or resources to build it myself.
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#4Pretty dang cool. Well done.
My ideal setup before eyeing the e-ink space was a linux-based netbook and occasional internet access to offload heavy compute to powerful servers. I could see using this sort of setup in a similar fashion.
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#5Reminds me of playing SimCity and learning Turbo C on my IBM PC Convertible with its far inferior non-backlit monochrome display.
Interesting that they Sharpied-out all of the extraneous keys, except Windows.
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#6Not an XT clone per se. XT had 8088 CPU, CGA/Hercules display adapter, and a 640KB RAM with a PC speaker. This one has 80186 and 1MB RAM with MCGA (VGA) and Adlib emulation too. It's better than an XT.
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#7Man, I want this, but IBM AT level, 32-bits with at least a 386 and 8MB of RAM.
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#8Can you make one that emulates a PowerBook 100?
Re: Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life
#9Not an XT clone per se. XT had 8088 CPU, CGA/Hercules display adapter, and a 640KB RAM with a PC speaker. This one has 80186 and 1MB RAM with MCGA (VGA) and Adlib emulation too. It's better than an XT.
This one has ESP32 just running 80186 emulator.
Re: Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life
#10Not an XT clone per se. XT had 8088 CPU, CGA/Hercules display adapter, and a 640KB RAM with a PC speaker. This one has 80186 and 1MB RAM with MCGA (VGA) and Adlib emulation too. It's better than an XT.
I was thinking the same thing when I saw 80186 and the display.
I had an XT in high school and used to hit up the BBSs at 2400 baud watching each character light up on my green monochrome display. It was glorious!