The Legend of the Lithium Battery

lecks · Post by **lecks** » Thu 20 Oct, 2005 3:12 am

whoah its unbelievable a charge can last that long. they need those in mp3 players.

... talk about reviving dead topics

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Thu 20 Oct, 2005 3:26 am

lecks wrote:whoah its unbelievable a charge can last that long. they need those in mp3 players.

... talk about reviving dead topics

What? I was making a relevant reply to the appropriate topic.

and I could use a higher post count

currahee · Post by **currahee** » Mon 24 Oct, 2005 2:53 am

AndySoft wrote:Actually, no. The processor in the calculator would just be too weak to handle HTML with reasonable speed (not to mention TCP in general). Add to that the very limited screen space, and it's definitely not worth it (for web browsing).

AvantGo would fare much better than HTML. Or we could develop our own web page code... .tiht83p (TI Hypertext 83p)
... eww what a long extension

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Mon 24 Oct, 2005 3:59 am

currahee wrote:
AndySoft wrote:Actually, no. The processor in the calculator would just be too weak to handle HTML with reasonable speed (not to mention TCP in general). Add to that the very limited screen space, and it's definitely not worth it (for web browsing).
AvantGo would fare much better than HTML. Or we could develop our own web page code... .tiht83p (TI Hypertext 83p)
... eww what a long extension

You know, there is a web browser for calculator by Kerm Martian. http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fi ... 25917.html
he also has plans for a modem, a networking hub, a color screen(using color lcd's behind the normal screen), and a program to be able to use a mouse plugged into the TICI 1.0 hub. Here is a complete listing of his files:
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/au ... /6077.html

DigiTan · Post by **DigiTan** » Mon 24 Oct, 2005 4:39 am

Ehhhh...that 'browser' is only 800 bytes large. Either old Kerm's come up with some miracle compression that would shame all of MIT, or somebody's sellin' snake oil. No offense to Kerm or snake oil.

currahee · Post by **currahee** » Mon 24 Oct, 2005 10:05 am

I hope he offers a free modem ISP service for his new TI calculator TICI vision

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Mon 24 Oct, 2005 1:16 pm

How nice, three year old Basic shit from Kerm... How useful posting that in any discussion...

CoBB · Post by **CoBB** » Mon 24 Oct, 2005 1:19 pm

I'm always amazed when I see someone actually believing all that gibberish.

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Mon 24 Oct, 2005 1:45 pm

CoBB wrote:I'm always amazed when I see someone actually believing all that gibberish.

I'm not saying I believe it, I have never really looked into whether it works or not, just putting it out there, as we were discussing web browsing, and he has a web browser, and plans for a calc modem.
Just curious, did anyone ever try installing the led's to make a color screen? I once thought about doing it on my calc. : - )

Post by **benryves** » Mon 24 Oct, 2005 1:54 pm

CompWiz wrote:Just curious, did anyone ever try installing the led's to make a color screen? I once thought about doing it on my calc.

Before I saw Kerm's, I built my own using 3 colour filters and some bulbs. The result was very bad; worse flickering than greyscale and the resulting colours were muddy and unclear (the green reflection from the back of the LCD looks crap - using properly coloured backlights might look better).

currahee · Post by **currahee** » Mon 24 Oct, 2005 4:11 pm

Timendus wrote:How nice, three year old Basic shit from Kerm... How useful posting that in any discussion...

Ahh... well played!

KermMartian · Post by **KermMartian** » Wed 26 Oct, 2005 11:36 pm

Yeah, that was indeed supposed to be a joke.