;-)
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
Hanna Montana, and you’re good to go.
More importantly, can it run doom?
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…
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 😘
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
Someone with NetBSD is already scouring eBay.
$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.
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.
You joke but it would be an awesome project. Maybe replace the screen with a real LCD, shove an rpi inside etc.
It does seem like it’d be pretty cool, though much rather them than me lol. I think shoving an rpi inside though would really betray the implicit spirit of the project. That would just be “can a raspberry pi run linux when I put in a plastic case shaped like a children’s toy?” The answer would pretty obviously be yes. People are saying the processor in it means it probably couldn’t run Linux which would make it a bit of a non-starter but there apparently other OSs that could be made to run on that kind of processor and that’d be cool to see.
Yeah, it’d be really cool if it could run real OS inside it, and can play sound from the builtin speaker it apparently has
“diy dr.k” on YouTube did something similar with a barbie kid’s laptop
“It belongs in a museum!”
You belong in a museum.
Just hang it on the wall
You may want to also post this to !linuxmemes@lemmy.world
Bet it can run doom.
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
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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!
