On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 10:51:05AM -0400, Tim Gray wrote:
> Last night I bolted out of sleep with an idea!
> I ripped open my laptop (486 dx100) and found that the motherboard was about
> 3 inches X 3 inches! and the connector board (the board that holds the vga,
> serial, and keyboard connectors on the back of the unit) was small enough to
> deal with.. This is a toshiba sattelite alptop. and I have seen them at swap
> meets with dead screens for about 100 bucks. (Unit works, dead lcd screen)
> This seemed to be an ultra cheap way to go, I'll document what I start with
> photos and Keep you guys updated.... (Hmmm ripping apart the Casio camera
> must wait first...) I believe this unit can be stuffed in a largish fanny
> pack easily. Does the twiddler plug into a ps-2 keyboard connection?
>
The twiddler only uses the keyboard port to draw power from, so you could
either get an adaptor to connect it to a PS2 port, or just chop off that
connector and wire it to your power supply...
--
Jason Kohles -- System Administrator -- XMission Internet Access
(at work) (at play)
str->str_pok |= SP_FBM; /* deep magic */
s = (unsigned char*)(str->str_ptr); /* deeper magic */
--Larry Wall in util.c from the perl source code
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