[sdiy] Top this! (calculator hacking)

[Magnus Danielson]

From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1 at airmail.net>
Subject: [sdiy] Top this! (calculator hacking)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 23:21:00 -0500
Message-ID: <009a01c4a1ed$e59fe940$0201a8c0 at bilbo>

Paul,

> I used to work with a guy that was an HP-41 nutcase.
> 
> He had a machined "cradle" made out of stainless steel that connected to the 
> internal data bus and the 4 ROM slots in the back. The cradle contained:
> 
> a) ASCII keyboard
> b) printer port
> c) 20MB hard drive (hey this was like 1988)
> d) 320 x 200 B/W video
> 
> This guy programmed the microcode to run all this stuff (homebrew OS) and THEN 
> wrote a WordPerfect clone that ran in the calculator! He did all of his word 
> processing on this thing!

Amazing!

Now, it's that kind of guys that makes one feel like a normal guy again, well
almost then...

Could he *still* run it as a calculator? ;O)
(I am sure he could, but you failed to mention it)

Cheers,
Magnus