Hi everyone,
I was just thinking about how cheap mobile phones are getting to be now,
thinking about the £10 generic models you can buy from any supermarket.
Well, I was wondering, what if the NanoNote were mainstream - or common
enough to drive the prices down. How much might such a computer be? £10?
£25? Just wondering, really.
Another thing that fascinates me: does anyone remember the old Amstrad
PPC-512/640 luggables? I've still got mine (complete with a copy of
Windows 1 that I stripped down to run from a single 720K disk), and
remember that, ever since I got it, I was fascinated by the tiny little
Supertwist LCD. Are those types of display still made? 'Cause I've
always wanted a little laptop with one of those as its display, even if
it is (actually, *especially* if it is) greyscale, non-backlit. Does
anyone think it might be possible, one day, to make a terminal with one
of those and transplant the guts of a NanoNote into it? I'm thinking of
a little netbook-sized computer that I can leave SIMH running on all the
time*, with some old UNIX (maybe 7th edition) as the OS. Does that wound
feasible?
Anyway, happy Nano-ing, everyone.
All the best. Mark T.
*I'm wanting to learn how to put my own Linux distribution together, and
as a little exercise would love to put something together that:
* only contains enough stuff to run SIMH
* runs SIMH at the single-user runlevel
* runs a special version of SIMH in which exiting the program can't
be done (remove <ctrl>+E and whatnot)
* uses only one TTY
* not part of the Linux setup, but the machine would preferably use
an SD card instead of an image file - I'll investigate the max.
size of a 7th ed. partition...
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