;-)
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Terry would be proud of you right after telling me to make him a Kebab
Terry would be so proud. And racist and scared. But also proud.
Oh, now you’re talkin!
I wonder what CPU it has. You should tear it down and see if you can get some custom code running.
What I should do it toss a pi in there and tease everyone
Be sure to wear your hacking goggles while flying through hyperspace, wouldn’t wanna catch any bugs in your eyes at such fast speeds.
Oh, I’m not moving. I just always have wind in my hair. 😎😎😎😎
If it’s like the older vtech educational toys it uses some z80 processor, so you won’t be able to run Linux but you can a few different hobbyist microcomputer operating systems like zeal8bit and fuzix.
Man, I had a vtech “computer” as a kid in the later 90’s. I don’t remember what happened to it or what it was even actually good for.
Pretty sure this is what I had.
…that’s the POWER model: the unit posted above is the consumer version with the SX chip, no math coprocessor and fewer function keys…
More importantly, can it run doom?
this might unironically run linux depending on the specs
On a Z80?
Hey, if you can do it on a 4004…
(Yes yes, you’d have to write an x86 emulator and it’d be slow as heck but I mean, you could.)
Unironically, of course.
Hanna Montana, and you’re good to go.
“It belongs in a museum!”
Just hang it on the wall
You belong in a museum.
I bet my left nut it runs NetBSD flawlessly.
What am I going to do with your left nut?
Use your imagination.
I think we might both like it…
First, I’ll use a pair of rusty sizors to extract them, then I slice it into thin strips and fry with a little olive oil and garlic
I recommend with a grain of salt
I you’re going to hack one, this one is much cooler
https://www.ebay.com/itm/186640570101
there’s a teardown here:
https://hackaday.com/2020/04/27/teardown-vtech-whiz-kid-luggable-computer/
Wwwwow. Yeah that is cooler. Is that just a repurposed oscilloscope?
Realistically with that screen size you could put anything in that thing. How do you get the impression that it might be a little smaller than it looks though.
Yeah, since it’s for kids, I think we need an adult sized hand in there for scale. Or a banana
I’m in tears, I’ve finally found the version of this toy I had as a kid.
Thank you so much for this shitpost, sincerely.
One person’s shit[post] is another one’s childhood 😘
Someone with NetBSD is already scouring eBay.
Bet it can run doom.
$500 might be a stretch, It weren’t for the horrible keyboard, and horrible screen, it might be worth putting a raspberry pi into as a sleeper project.
Yes I realize it’s a joke.
