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Rick Herndon | 1 Feb 20:41
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Discussion: Frontlighting our laptops

These folks are specifically discussing lighting their Alphasmart Neo 
writing tools, but the same points will do for us.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/alphasmart/discuss/72157601959118040/

I don't mean necessarily to get yet another discussion of lighting 
going, but just really wanted to bring this discussion here.

Pax,
Rick K5FNI   => "Real computers have clock speeds slower than 5 MHz."
Mathis, Texas
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John Whitton | 1 Feb 20:46

Fw: One liner...BASIC's signed 16-bit integers


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>> So, what we can do instead is this:
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>> 1 INPUTA:FORX=46TO0STEP-1:B=2^X:E=(B<=A):C=C-E:A=A+E*B:NEXT:PRINTC:RUN
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> 
 Mike & fellow bit counters,

 The amazing shrinking code:

 1 INPUTA:FORX=1TO47:B=A/2^X:C=C+INT(B+.5)-INT(B):NEXT:PRINTC:RUN

 Back to basics... shift out the bits, count them...

 This may be becoming tedious for the list.., but it's an interesting 
 exercise.

 John  W.
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J Bickhard | 1 Feb 20:59
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Re: Model 100 Barcode port info

You might be able to build an adaptor for the serial port on the back of the
Model 100. You could then write some custom drivers for it in
machine-language. We have talked about using a serial mouse with the M-100,
just search for serial mouse in the archives.

Jake, Editor of Micro 100 Magazine

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 1:44 PM, <gotoole@...> wrote:

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> Hi All
>
> I have Sega Megadrive and noticed that the joysticks for this have the same
> conector as the Model
> 100 Barcode port.
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> When I plugged the joystick into the Barcode port it fited.
>
> My question is could the Model 100 be used with the joystick.
>
> I am thinking it could  used to move items around the menu and then select
> an item on the menu.
>
> Thanks
>
> Gordon
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J Bickhard | 1 Feb 21:00
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Re: Discussion: Frontlighting our laptops

Might just be able to plug in a light to the Cassette port and "motor on"
when you need it.

Jake, Editor of Micro 100 Magazine

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Rick Herndon <k5fni@...> wrote:

> These folks are specifically discussing lighting their Alphasmart Neo
> writing tools, but the same points will do for us.
> http://www.flickr.com/groups/alphasmart/discuss/72157601959118040/
>
> I don't mean necessarily to get yet another discussion of lighting going,
> but just really wanted to bring this discussion here.
>
> Pax,
> Rick K5FNI   => "Real computers have clock speeds slower than 5 MHz."
> Mathis, Texas
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J Bickhard | 1 Feb 21:03
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Wi-Fi

I know this has been discussed before, but before you all flame me, have you
heard of the Wi-Fly? It's a standard SD card with Wi-Fi. It costs about $80,
and with some firmware modifications, could be used with the NADSBox. Much
easier than building another chip *and* changing the firmware.

Jake, Editor of Micro 100 Magazine
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Stephen Adolph | 1 Feb 21:12
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Re: Wi-Fi

 a link would be good.
sounds interesting...never heard of that before.
Steve

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 3:03 PM, J Bickhard <jbickhard@...> wrote:
> I know this has been discussed before, but before you all flame me, have you
> heard of the Wi-Fly? It's a standard SD card with Wi-Fi. It costs about $80,
> and with some firmware modifications, could be used with the NADSBox. Much
> easier than building another chip *and* changing the firmware.
>
> Jake, Editor of Micro 100 Magazine
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Gary Lee Phillips | 1 Feb 21:43
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Re: Fw: One liner...BASIC's signed 16-bit integers

OK, I haven't been following all of this but I got curious. Doesn't
that "NEXT" right before "PRINTC" have to be "NEXTX"?

It seems to me, now that this has shrunken so far, it ought to be
possible to print the bits out as they are determined. Easy enough to
get them in reverse order without making it much longer, but can we
get them to come out with the high order at the left as we'd normally
write them? Thinking...

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:46 PM, John Whitton <jwhitton@...> wrote:
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>>>
>>> So, what we can do instead is this:
>>>
>>> 1 INPUTA:FORX=46TO0STEP-1:B=2^X:E=(B<=A):C=C-E:A=A+E*B:NEXT:PRINTC:RUN
>>>
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>>
> Mike & fellow bit counters,
>
> The amazing shrinking code:
>
> 1 INPUTA:FORX=1TO47:B=A/2^X:C=C+INT(B+.5)-INT(B):NEXT:PRINTC:RUN
>
> Back to basics... shift out the bits, count them...
>
> This may be becoming tedious for the list.., but it's an interesting
> exercise.
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J Bickhard | 1 Feb 21:56
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Re: Wi-Fi

Oops, got the name wrong. It's "Eye-Fi" www.eye.fi

Jake, Editor of Micro 100 Magazine

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Stephen Adolph <twospruces@...> wrote:

>  a link would be good.
> sounds interesting...never heard of that before.
> Steve
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 3:03 PM, J Bickhard <jbickhard@...> wrote:
> > I know this has been discussed before, but before you all flame me, have
> you
> > heard of the Wi-Fly? It's a standard SD card with Wi-Fi. It costs about
> $80,
> > and with some firmware modifications, could be used with the NADSBox.
> Much
> > easier than building another chip *and* changing the firmware.
> >
> > Jake, Editor of Micro 100 Magazine
> >
>
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Eric V. T. Nakano | 1 Feb 22:00
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Re: Wi-Fi

There are a number of SD-card 802.11b or g SD cards, typically designed to
be used in PalmOS and Windows Mobile devices.  The problem with these cards
for our purposes wouldn't be the form factor of the card, but the actually
getting the card to do anything with Model-T.  I imagine that at the very
least, the following would be required:
1.  Coding a driver on the NADSbox (or other new type of box) to interface
with the card and implement TCP/IP.
2.  Due to the memory limitations on the Model-T, it would be necessary to
try to code any applications into the interface box (i.e. Lynx, Telnet, some
sort of mail client maybe), and then set it up so that the applications
could then be accessed through the TERM application on the Model-T.
3.  The interface box would additionally need to have both memory and
storage, both to buffer the input from the card, but also to hold the data
from applications.  Web pages and e-mail, even with  frequently consume more
memory than a Model-T has, so it is not practical to actually expect to
download the information onto the 10x or 200.  If I understand everything
correctly this would need a new version of the hardware.

I, for one, do not have the sort of Jedi skills that this project would
take, but I suspect it would be possible for someone with the kind of skills
and times that I could only ever aspire to.

Just as practical a solution, however would probably to use one of the newer
IBM PC on a chips, and then code it to run a terminal interface, Lynx, and
any other applications.  It would almost certainly be easier to do since it
wouldn't require any hardware skills.

The irony, of course, is that you would be using a box much more powerful
than the Model-T to allow the Model-T to connect to the Internet.
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Stephen Adolph | 1 Feb 22:00
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Re: Wi-Fi

Sounds to me like that nasty "software" problem here.

What this does for the NADSbox is eliminate the need to move the card
back and forth.  We don't get wireless networking without some serious
software work (hacking).

But the hardware is very cool.

Steve

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 3:56 PM, J Bickhard <jbickhard@...> wrote:
> Oops, got the name wrong. It's "Eye-Fi" www.eye.fi
>
> Jake, Editor of Micro 100 Magazine
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Stephen Adolph <twospruces@...> wrote:
>
>>  a link would be good.
>> sounds interesting...never heard of that before.
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 3:03 PM, J Bickhard <jbickhard@...> wrote:
>> > I know this has been discussed before, but before you all flame me, have
>> you
>> > heard of the Wi-Fly? It's a standard SD card with Wi-Fi. It costs about
>> $80,
>> > and with some firmware modifications, could be used with the NADSBox.
>> Much
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