Re: TI-H: Re: I love Grant Stockly.

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Re: TI-H: Re: I love Grant Stockly.


My laptop regularly runs above 120F, and the PCMCIA
cards can get up to 170F... anybody want a fried egg?

Seeing as how most laptops have no internal fans, and
the p1XX chips can disipate up to 5W in heat, things
get hot really fast.

They really should change the name from "laptop" to
"small tabletop" or something, since if you put the
thing on your lap you're going to have some sterility
issues later in life. :-)

Bryan

Grant Stockly wrote:
> 
> >Illegal to work?
> 
> yes...
> 
> Too many hours maybe, but unless you are still in
> >elementary school, you could work for Microsoft for all the Gov't cares.
> 
> Nope...  Hopefully I'll go to 9th grade next year...  :)
> 
> >And I'm not going to even mention the laptop ;)
> 
> Its been dropped on the floor a few times.  And beleive me, don't try to
> make your own rapid charger from a car altinator...  :)  Or try to make
> your own car cord with a car that puts out 14.5 and a laptio that uses 13
> regulated.  Or its not a good idea to install Windows 95 since it heats up
> the diskdrive.  Its also not a good idea to doubble space the hard drive
> with a battery...
> 
> All these things are done on a Versa V/50...  I've had a mac laptop longer,
> its gone through even severe punishment...  :P
> 
> Well, thats not something to even think about bragging...  The only thing I
> suggest you not do is make your own charger...  My battery was getting real
> real hot and I almost burnt my hand.  Its not even funny...  :(  The
> battery still works....  :)
> 
> >Grant Stockly wrote:
> >>
> >> >Grant, you seem to be an electronic genius! Arent companies fighting over
> >> >you?
> >>
> >> Its illegal for me to work since I'm under age...
> >>
> >> >Where do you get the time and money!? I just don't know what to think. I
> >> >just love you..
> >>
> >> I don't get the time, and CERTAINLY not the money...  :)
> >>
> >> >You've made:
> >> >- A 2-mile radio link that works perfectly at 38400.
> >> >- A Printer that works with TI's
> >>
> >> The printer is just a hack of my serial driver with definitons on how to do
> >> bold, italic, and other typeface things...  The parallel half of the
> >> printer thing was easy too...  The project only took 3 hours (to make it
> >> good).
> >>
> >> >- A working Expander-II, and 92 drivers.
> >>
> >> Bryan could finish it if he got off IRC...  ;)
> >>
> >> >- A portable MP3 player, (and you have a deal with Sony!!)
> >>
> >> Its sonys car audio company...  The only reason they want it is because its
> >> already set up to use a 4.3 o4 6GB hard drive...and works.
> >>
> >> >- Other things, on your page
> >>
> >> Too bad all of those projects are on my Versa V/50 laptop...  I'll see if I
> >> can't get them.  It broke and hardly works.  Floppy drive is dead
> >> (something rattels inside), Hard drive has bad sectors like sand on a
> >> beach, and I'm not sure whats up with its serial port...  :)  I'll look
> >> into getting the EII and printer and the other
> >> projects/schematics/instructions off of it some time.  Everything I've made
> >> is in there!!
> >>
> >> And I realy mean "in" there because the only way to get it out is to use a
> >> serial cable...
> >>
> >> >I couldn't seem to find any schematics on your page, do I just not know
> >> >where to look?
> >>
> >> They are "in" my laptop...  I'll see if I can find time to "open" it...  :)
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