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I love this, but it's too bad he wasn't able to find a way to preserve the original edge-lit passive matrix display. There's a growing niche of people interested in RLCD displays as a kind of e-ink alternative, and the display this machine originally had was similar to that.


Yep. It was sort of a dealbreaker for me as soon as I read that. Someone put a raspberry pi and modern day display into the case of a 1989 Compaq. Cool project. But not particularly noteworthy.


He said a lot of it was broken. Perhaps that included the original screen too and he had no choice.




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