;-)
$500 might be a stretch, It weren’t for the horrible keyboard, and horrible screen, it might be worth putting a raspberry pi into as a sleeper project.
Yes I realize it’s a joke.
Temple OS or bust
Terry would be so proud. And racist and scared. But also proud.
Oh, now you’re talkin!
this might unironically run linux depending on the specs
On a Z80?
I don’t know. You should make sure it doesn’t have a Realtek Wi-Fi card. Otherwise, it looks fine. I found the Linux Hardware report for it here: https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=7144bb41
I think the price to performance doesn’t look the best, though. Maybe go for a Thinkpad instead?
Bravo.
Realtek work great since 6.2
I think it’s mistly okay. I had a bit of misery with my 8852BE on my new Thinkpad E16 (the card would just disconnect from the system until the next reboot occasionally), which was solved with some kernel parameters I found online.
I bet my left nut it runs NetBSD flawlessly.
What am I going to do with your left nut?
Use your imagination.
I think we might both like it…
First, I’ll use a pair of rusty sizors to extract them, then I slice it into thin strips and fry with a little olive oil and garlic
I recommend with a grain of salt
You may want to also post this to !linuxmemes@lemmy.world
“It belongs in a museum!”
Just hang it on the wall
You belong in a museum.
yeah its very possible, Take a blow torch and arch linux iso (you need wizard to take it out of your pc you can find the wizard hiding in your tor browser he built a house inside of the tor browser.) then take a blowtorch and burn the iso into the pc front now it should be running arch btw.
@ravhall half a kilobuck just to make it happen? guess if that floats your arch boat, go do it and report back on your success!
I you’re going to hack one, this one is much cooler
https://www.ebay.com/itm/186640570101
there’s a teardown here:
https://hackaday.com/2020/04/27/teardown-vtech-whiz-kid-luggable-computer/
Wwwwow. Yeah that is cooler. Is that just a repurposed oscilloscope?
Realistically with that screen size you could put anything in that thing. How do you get the impression that it might be a little smaller than it looks though.
Yeah, since it’s for kids, I think we need an adult sized hand in there for scale. Or a banana
Be sure to wear your hacking goggles while flying through hyperspace, wouldn’t wanna catch any bugs in your eyes at such fast speeds.
Oh, I’m not moving. I just always have wind in my hair. 😎😎😎😎
More importantly, can it run doom?
You joke but it would be an awesome project. Maybe replace the screen with a real LCD, shove an rpi inside etc.
It does seem like it’d be pretty cool, though much rather them than me lol. I think shoving an rpi inside though would really betray the implicit spirit of the project. That would just be “can a raspberry pi run linux when I put in a plastic case shaped like a children’s toy?” The answer would pretty obviously be yes. People are saying the processor in it means it probably couldn’t run Linux which would make it a bit of a non-starter but there apparently other OSs that could be made to run on that kind of processor and that’d be cool to see.
“diy dr.k” on YouTube did something similar with a barbie kid’s laptop
Yeah, it’d be really cool if it could run real OS inside it, and can play sound from the builtin speaker it apparently has
Someone with NetBSD is already scouring eBay.
Is that just a model, or is there actually a display in the middle that does something?
There is a small LCD in the middle. This is a different brand, but the same idea.
FYI you can trim 80% of that. https://www.amazon.com/LEXiBOOK-Educational-Activities-Mathematics-Dactylography/dp/B0B6HKB3JF/ Amazon sure loves its tracking data.
You can trim it even further:
Yes, there’s a monochrome display in the middle. It’s kinda like a TI-86 calculator aimed at children.
