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💬General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: dhouston on September 24, 2014, 09:13:21 AM

Title: grow your own laptop
Post by: dhouston on September 24, 2014, 09:13:21 AM
A few people are using the Raspberry Pi B+ as their HA controller. Here's an interesting DIY project to build your own laptop (with WiFi) based on Pi+ kits. There's even an option to 3D print your own case. Things have progressed a (little) bit from the Sinclair ZX81 kit I gave my oldest son for Xmas in 1981.
Title: Re: grow your own laptop
Post by: dave w on September 24, 2014, 05:44:19 PM
Quote from: dhouston on September 24, 2014, 09:13:21 AM
Things have progressed a (little) bit from the Sinclair ZX81
Excepting the poppel switch keyboard, the Sinclair was cool, especially the price.
Title: Re: grow your own laptop
Post by: beelocks on September 24, 2014, 06:48:05 PM
The ZX81 was leaps and bounds ahead of the ZX80.
The ZX81 had a MASSIVE 8k ROM and the RAM could be expanded to a mindboggling 64k.
Being an early adopter of the ZX series I spent all of my money on the ZX80 and could only drool over the 81 and the Spectrum the following year :(
Title: Re: grow your own laptop
Post by: HA Dave on September 25, 2014, 12:08:00 AM
Quote from: beelocks on September 24, 2014, 06:48:05 PM
........ The ZX81 had a MASSIVE 8k ROM and the RAM could be expanded to a mindboggling 64k.

PLUS rubber keyboard buttons too.... if I remember correctly. I bought a Commodore... the Vic-20. 
Title: Re: grow your own laptop
Post by: dhouston on September 25, 2014, 05:09:00 AM
Quote from: HA Dave on September 25, 2014, 12:08:00 AM
I bought a Commodore...
No. 2 son got a C64, then inherited my Kaypro II when I went to a PC. But both sons fondly remember the Sinclair.