Re: TI-H: Inside TI83
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On Tue, 22 Oct 1996 18:57:24 -0500 Robert Fisher <BlakLite@ix.netcom.com>
writes:
>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
Radioactive?!? I was not aware of that. . . Is Timex trying to nuke us
all with Indiglo :-)?
Would explain that fellow I saw the other day with that extra finger on
his left hand (where he wears his watch)!!!! ;-)
-|/|/esley McGrew
wesleymcgrew@juno.com
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