Re: TI-H: Inside TI83


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Re: TI-H: Inside TI83



At 05:43 PM 10/22/96 -0500, you wrote:
>FWIW,
>
>I'm in the process of checking out my TI83 now.  Apparently, on the
>TI-83, C9 is not a capacitor (there go my acceleration dreams..  :)
>It is near the link port at the end of the PC board.  Maybe it is
>similar in design to the CE-type TI-85?  The board itself is labeled
>"9T883MB-30D" and the date code is "9619."  
>
>As far as the backlighting idea goes, there is a ~ 3mm space on either
>side of the LCD in the case where some kind of thin, small lighting
>device can go.  I don't have a Game Gear so I can't take a look at the
>innards of one of those.  I have, however, a dead Casio watch with a
>light.  Can't we adapt the idea from one of those, or even better, an
>Indiglo watch?  The lighting device used in the watch is rather small.


That's a good idea, but be careful when ripping apart your watch.  A small
piece of radioactive material is what creates the light and would not be a
really good thing to play with.  :)
                        BlakLite


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