Re: LittleJohn Systems Site Hacked

[James Littlejohn <narguthru@yahoo.com>]

On Apr 20, 1:51 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> Simon D. Williams wrote:
> > On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Greg Andrzejewski wrote:
>
> >> Your design reminded me of something I thought of while looking at
> >> Ben's IIgs laptop. Didn't Apple use ADB as the internal connection bus
> >> for the keyboard and pointing device all the way up until like the G4
> >> powerbooks? It would be way cool to have a trackpad on a IIgs laptop,
> >> even though I personally hate using trackpads
>
> > A trackball from an older 68K powerbook would be a better choice IMHO...
> > also the keyboards are nice and compact, though not as nice as the IIc
> > keyboard.
>
> > On another tack: how hard would it be to run one of these off batteries?
> > My understanding is that you'd need both 12V and 5V, so 8+3 AA's??? How
> > much power does a stripped IIgs board use? I'd guess using CFFA instead
> > of floppy drives would cut down considerably on power use...
>
> The CFFA would certainly lessen the motor load on the +12v.  But does
> the IIgs (or any of the cards you want) also use -5v and -12v?
>
> The best way to go would be to use a multi-voltage DC-to-DC switcher.
> That way all the cells of the battery are used at the same rate, and
> maximum energy is used for the computer.  Efficiencies of 90% and
> better are achievable.
>
> -michael
>
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>
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> tool--and it's seriously underused."

I will be using a picoPSU-60WI, and a custon LittllePower adapter to
provide power to the Laptop.