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Laptop Based on 6502 CPU

Laptop Based on 6502 CPU

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Comments (39)

  • notorandit
    While not "portable" in the common modern sense, we also had:Apple IIc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIc)and it's younger and final brother Apple IIc Plus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIc_Plus)
  • flopsamjetsam
    https://codeberg.org/TechPaula/LT6502bSpecs:* 65C02 running at 10MHz* 46KByte of user RAM* EhBASIC 22p2 with custom extensions* eWOZMON* Compact Flash for storage* Built in battery (7400mAh currently)* USB-PD Rechargable* 10.1" Screen with 1024x600 and 256 colours* WiFi Modem (based on this - https://github.com/dhansel/WifiModem)* nanoSwinSID for sound (as well as beeps)
  • userbinator
    Many of the cheap "educational toy laptops" which were somewhat common before "real" ones took over, also used a 6502-based SoC: https://github.com/davidgiven/vtech6502The Z80 has likewise experienced the same use: https://hackaday.io/project/166921-v-tech-genius-leader-prec...
  • donpdonp
    Very interesting project. It'd be nice to see video of it in action and what use cases the author had in mind. A pic in a different post shows the 48k ram chip, and not far away is an SD card of 1 gigabyte - that's a dramatic contrast. The storage can hold the contents of ram 21,845 times over. If an 8GB laptop today had the equivalent storage, it would be a disk of 174TB.Browsing by tag 'lt6502b' gives other posts that have pictures of the motherboard. https://www.maddox.pro/?cat=65 (update: the codeberg link has all the relevant pics)
  • weinzierl
    Well, there was the Commodore SX 64. Not exactly lap sized but portable for sure.https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_SX-64
  • Neywiny
    What an interesting layout for a mobile site. It had the archive and a bunch of other stuff before the post. I thought OP linked something wrong.
  • discardable_dan
    This is a cool project. The AI banner looks awful.
  • burner420042
    "Getting it to at least run BASIC" is a common theme with DIY enthusiasts. Why is that?
  • anon
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  • user3939382
    A 6502 is capable of most actual workloads people have, whose profiles actually haven’t changed much. Almost all of our compute goes to GUI and rendering stacks that decorate our actual work.
  • system7rocks
    Here is what I get confused about...Surely a laptop prototype based on such a tested and well-worn CPU with 48K of RAM would be cool, but shouldn't it sip power? Like shouldn't it last for like months on a charge? Or am I revealing my very meager and outdated understanding of engineering with only a bachelor in computer science from like 2004?
  • debo_
    When I saw the domain name, I thought this might be:https://basharchive.org/#s/Maddox
  • utopcell
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  • fatbitch
    It’s not a laptop! It’s just a desktop in a ugly fat laptop-ishy case.