Author Topic: My Model M13 for my Raspberry Pi (Read 2475 times)

I use it to monitor RSS feeds, IRC Channels, Twitter and encode video all within Terminal, basically its an aid in my hobby which is satellite feed hunting and DX.

jdcarpe · « **Reply #5 on:** Thu, 14 March 2013, 10:39:20 »

Very nice, remlap.

For my Raspberry Pi, I just bought a vintage home computer, the TI-99/4A (my first computer as a kid) off eBay. I plan to remove the guts, connect the built-in keyboard to a Teensy, and connect that to a Pi mounted inside. All I need then is some sort of pointing device, and I have an all-in-one Linux box!

remlap · « **Reply #6 on:** Thu, 14 March 2013, 10:54:25 »

Does the Pi have an emulator for the TI-99/4A OS?

jdcarpe · « **Reply #7 on:** Thu, 14 March 2013, 11:06:53 »

Not as far as I know. There is Classic99 for Windows. Can WINE run under Raspbian? An emulator within an emulator...

remlap · « **Reply #8 on:** Thu, 14 March 2013, 11:13:52 »

Don't think so since WINE is for x86 machines, Pi is ARM.

jdcarpe · « **Reply #9 on:** Thu, 14 March 2013, 11:22:40 »

Yeah, that's a long way to go anyway, to replicate hardware I'm going to be ripping out.

I just had a thought, though. I might be able to connect the SD card slot to the cartridge slot in the TI. Then replace the ROM in the cartridge with an SD card, to have swappable SD cards with the Pi tucked away inside. Also, I need to route the power to the Pi through the power switch on the front of the case.

remlap · « **Reply #10 on:** Thu, 14 March 2013, 12:30:41 »

Sounds a plan, planning on documenting the build? I'd eagerly follow.

jdcarpe · « **Reply #11 on:** Thu, 14 March 2013, 12:41:53 »

Sure. I'll keep a build log and take some crappy phone pics along the way.

remlap · « **Reply #12 on:** Thu, 14 March 2013, 14:07:05 »

PM me the link when you do

GordonZed · « **Reply #13 on:** Thu, 14 March 2013, 14:13:22 »

That sounds brilliant, please do. I've been looking for a good excuse to grab a Raspberry Pi. I think a Pi inside a ZX Spectrum would be fantastic; that keyboard looks horrible but it's such a pretty little thing.

Okay, thread robbing over.

ishumprod · « **Reply #14 on:** Thu, 14 March 2013, 14:41:33 »

Quote from: GordonZed on Thu, 14 March 2013, 14:13:22

That sounds brilliant, please do. I've been looking for a good excuse to grab a Raspberry Pi. I think a Pi inside a ZX Spectrum would be fantastic; that keyboard looks horrible but it's such a pretty little thing.

Okay, thread robbing over.

if i get it well, the raspberry PI being a "computer", you wanna make a keyboard with a whole computer inside ? and you just plug it to the screen and voila ! ?

BRILLIANT. DO WANT

natgab · « **Reply #15 on:** Thu, 14 March 2013, 23:21:21 »

Quote from: ishumprod on Thu, 14 March 2013, 14:41:33

Quote from: GordonZed on Thu, 14 March 2013, 14:13:22
That sounds brilliant, please do. I've been looking for a good excuse to grab a Raspberry Pi. I think a Pi inside a ZX Spectrum would be fantastic; that keyboard looks horrible but it's such a pretty little thing.

Okay, thread robbing over.

if i get it well, the raspberry PI being a "computer", you wanna make a keyboard with a whole computer inside ? and you just plug it to the screen and voila ! ?

BRILLIANT. DO WANT

--Why not a VIC 20?

jdcarpe · « **Reply #16 on:** Thu, 14 March 2013, 23:33:40 »

I can see doing this with any vintage home computer hardware you have a feeling of nostalgia for. For me, it's the TI-99/4A. For some it will be a VIC-20 or Commodore 64. Maybe somehow a ZX Spectrum or Timex Sinclair, although I don't know why you would want to use those tiny chiclet keyboards.

GordonZed · « **Reply #17 on:** Thu, 14 March 2013, 23:56:37 »

I have a C64 myself, but I can't say I feel real nostalgia for it. I'm only 21 years old, so most of these old things are really interesting to me, but several years before my time.

remlap · « **Reply #18 on:** Fri, 15 March 2013, 09:38:25 »

C64 I owned was my dad's I am 26, that I tried out but always returned to 3.1.1

jdcarpe · « **Reply #19 on:** Fri, 15 March 2013, 09:49:38 »

I got my TI-99/4A in 1983, and learned on it (used a tape recorder for storage). When I was in 7th grade (1986), we were required to take a "computer literacy" class. We used C64's to create simple BASIC programs. A coach at the junior high taught the class, but after the first week or so, I basically ended up teaching my fellow students more than he did.

It wasn't until I took "Computer Science" in high school that we had access to "real" PC's, in this case IBM PS/2's. We created some code using Turbo Pascal.

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