TI-H: lots of ideas

To: "'ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org'" <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Subject: TI-H: lots of ideas
From: Christopher Kalos <raptorone@geocities.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 21:17:40 -0400
Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org

One:
	For the backlight, stick with green LED's.  Human eyes are most sensitive to green light from what I've gathered (24-bit color spread is an applied example, not to mention night-vision goggles)  Therefore, it would provide the best light and the lowest price.  I think the mouser catalog has the best prices I've seen so far.
	Next, turboing, I'm about to connect a variable cap to my 83, but I want to make sure that I'm hacking the right components, so if anyone knows, please get back to me.
	Also, a better glare guard for the 83/86.  It's too "shiny."  maybe just some anti-glare coating would work, but the current setup also blurs the incredibly sharp images that the LCD provides (I removed the LCD cover).
	Finally (i hope), new hard drive designs.  the XI2C bus (whatever that is) has a 64K chip.  it's small, but possibly useful.  Maybe it's close to compatible with I2C, so we might be able to make small expanders, or put them on the bus to create a larger device with some form of page swapping or bus addressing.
	Thanks for listening to my rants...
Christopher Kalos
raptorone@geocities.com
raptor_one@hotmail.com
Executive Director/Administrator
Virtual Technologies Developer's Group