So I just found about the little pocket PC from the auction thread where the guy is selling his "surprisingly complete" set on eBay. I am amazed at something like that running for apparently "up to 6 weeks" on 3 AA batteries. If only modern laptops could be built that way.
I guess I'm wondering a couple things -- is that claim correct, or is that a skew that it will maintain memory in a sleep type state for 6 weeks? I assume you can't actually run it for 6 weeks straight?
Also it's supposedly IBM PC compatible, DOS and BIOS and all that. But the character display is limited (40 x 8 or 240 x 64) so how can it run general DOS programs? I'd imagine you'd only see the first 8 lines?
I guess I'm wondering a couple things -- is that claim correct, or is that a skew that it will maintain memory in a sleep type state for 6 weeks? I assume you can't actually run it for 6 weeks straight?
Also it's supposedly IBM PC compatible, DOS and BIOS and all that. But the character display is limited (40 x 8 or 240 x 64) so how can it run general DOS programs? I'd imagine you'd only see the first 8 lines?