Atari 800xe laptop ...

prog99 · Post by **prog99** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:53 pm

Main site slashdotted so heres a mirror

http://benheck.com.nyud.net:8090/

Post by **[ProToS]** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 11:35 pm

wow

and now how could made that with a f030

PaulB · Post by **PaulB** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 9:08 am

Reading through more of that site, that guy has done some amazing machines. He must be extremely rich though to afford all those consoles and then convert them to something else.

keili · Post by **keili** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 11:42 am

And he must have lots of time. For me it's faster to wait a year, until i find, what i want, than to start soldering.

Ragstaff · Post by **Ragstaff** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:14 pm

the other cool thing was the closet atari-owning slashdotters that came out of the woodwork... ST owners, a falcon owner....

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl ... 22&tid=137

030falcon030 · Post by **030falcon030** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 5:16 pm

that is very nice someone needs to make a laptop of a f030

PaulB · Post by **PaulB** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 8:24 pm

It would be a rather large laptop simply because of the size of the motherboard. It could be done but I believe it would be more compact if someone was able to cut the board in two and connect them together via ribbon cable. Then again, who want to take a chance on killing a Falcon.

030falcon030 · Post by **030falcon030** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 11:50 am

That guy could probably succeed but even folding it in half wouldent it be slightly thick?

CiH · Post by **CiH** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 12:21 pm

It would be a rather large laptop simply because of the size of the motherboard. It could be done but I believe it would be more compact if someone was able to cut the board in two and connect them together via ribbon cable. Then again, who want to take a chance on killing a Falcon.

You would kill your Falcon! Don't even go there!

I seem to remember Coda saying that there were *six* layers of tracks and circuitry buried within the mobo, so it's not just about what you see on the surface.

Maybe a widescreen laptop would be possible

030falcon030 · Post by **030falcon030** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 5:28 pm

Possible but very heavy.

jens · Post by **jens** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 10:35 pm

CiH wrote:I seem to remember Coda saying that there were *six* layers of tracks and circuitry buried within the mobo, so it's not just about what you see on the surface.

It's just four I think...

Dark Willow · Post by **Dark Willow** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 9:20 pm

Actually, when you look at the size of modern widescreen laptops, a falcon one would be more or less comprarable in size, laptops now are getting bigger and bigger again, they make the STacy look practically dainty.