Won't help with a Z88 - but couldn't we take 5Vdc from some available port and use it to run a low-power LED gooseneck light? The bar-code reader port looks like a good candidate to me. Nice DB9->USB A dongle and you can plug in whatever light you want, provided the M100 can supply the current. I'm too tired to read from the schematic what the power supply to that port is, but I'll bet it could spare a few hundred milliwatts for an LED.
-Josh On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Alex ... <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the lack of any sort of backlight is one of the #1 reasons why I > rarely use my T102... :/ > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 11:43 PM, Russ Oechslin <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> There are several booklamps that clamp on to a book cover. Perhaps you >> could adapt one. We're in the Midwest and Menards -- a Wisconsin-based Home >> Depot like store -- often gives them away free after rebate, WITH batteries >> included! >> >> >> At 10:10 PM 9/7/2016, you wrote: >> >> >> Hi guys, >> Have any of you come up with a decent solution to having to use the >> computer in less than ideal lighting situations? >> Perhaps a portable lamp of some sort? >> I'd love to hear what you guys have come up with. I'm using a Z88 and the >> screen is even more difficult to read and I really need a solution. >> Thanks, Louis >> >> >> Russ Oechslin >> > > > > -- > Disclaimer: Any resemblance between the above views and those of my > employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. > Any resemblance between the above and my own views is non-deterministic. > The question of the existence of views in the absence of anyone to hold > them is left as an exercise for the reader. > The question of the existence of the reader is left as an exercise for the > second god coefficient. (A discussion of non-orthogonal, non-integral > polytheism is beyond the scope of this article.) Thanks /usr/games/fortune >
