Re: Great bargains from E-bay / Garage / Yard / Car boot sal
Double post!
Went to Goodwill today and this followed me home:
It's basically a dedicated email computer for old people from 1999. You hooked it up to a phone line and it dialed out every few hours and synced with your service provider's POP or SMTP server. Runs off a 9v adapter (which was still in the random box o' AC adapters, amazingly) or three AAs. There's also a parallel port on the back for printing.
Still works!
Keyboard works too!
It's still full of someone's old email. (Nobody ever erases anything before they donate it...) Guess they weren't too happy with the service.
Wait you mean not only is it an email appliance but it's a CALCULATOR too?!
Oh well time to tear it apart!
Not much stuff on the back of the board...
Motherboard glory shot.
It's pretty useless as-is, but it's got a nice LCD pixel display, mini keyboard, and guts to play with. I'm thinking maybe it could become a portable terminal emulator with a Propeller or AVR, once I work out how to make the LCD do my bidding.
e: Whoa nice pink image artifacts, Shaky the Camera Guy. That will teach you to mix incandescent, fluorescent, and daylight.
e2: From what I can tell the CPU is a custom z80 and the screen has a resolution of about 330 by 128. Stumbled upon a built-in hex viewer, which is kinda weird...