Picocalc, a Modern Retro Computer? [video]

 (youtu.be)

12 points | by indigodaddy 13 hours ago

3 comments

  • sunshine-o
    11 hours ago
    I am exited whenever I see something with a physical qwerty keyboard.

    I could really ditch my smartphone if one of those could run Linux reasonably well.

    LilyGo do have the perfect device and keyboard [0] but Linux on the ESP32-S3 is tough.

    - [0] https://lilygo.cc/products/t-deck-plus-1

  • queenkjuul
    12 hours ago
    I see the mention of a version that can run a full Linux distro, and that's been my dream for ages--something this shape and size, but that i can use like a normal (tiny, slow) computer. Hopefully that moves along, or maybe i need to hack my own together with this milk-v board i have laying around
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    • sunshine-o
      11 hours ago
      I believe the ones able to run Linux are the uConsole serie, which are bigger.
  • gnabgib
    13 hours ago
    Related PicoCalc: A fully-functional clone of VisiCalc for the PICO-8 (237 points, 2023, 47 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37746663
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    • ChristopherDrum
      10 hours ago
      I am the author of PicoCalc. I had no idea anyone had posted it here on HN, that it had so many points and comments, or that anyone still remembers it. Makes my day :)
    • indigodaddy
      13 hours ago
      Nice, yeah I figured worth another discussion perhaps because the video actually shows a lot of different cool things you can do with it