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Picocalc, a Modern Retro Computer? [video]

by indigodaddy on 4/20/25, 7:38 PM with 7 comments

  • by gnabgib on 4/20/25, 7:39 PM

    Related PicoCalc: A fully-functional clone of VisiCalc for the PICO-8 (237 points, 2023, 47 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37746663

  • by sunshine-o on 4/20/25, 9:12 PM

    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

  • by queenkjuul on 4/20/25, 8:43 PM

    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