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EEVblog #320 - Mailbag Monday
« on: July 23, 2012, 10:59:35 pm »


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Re: EEVblog #320 - Mailbag Monday
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2012, 12:45:41 am »
Hi Dave,

I'm the one who donated the PDAs.
The iPAQ battery had started to bulge and would no longer fit in the battery compartment so I recycled it...

/Fredrik
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Re: EEVblog #320 - Mailbag Monday
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2012, 01:35:01 am »
I love the Psion.

I chose to program one of them as part of the thesis project for my surveying degree way back when.

It was a fantastic bit of kit and was a real shame to have to hand it back to the Uni when I was done.


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Re: EEVblog #320 - Mailbag Monday
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2012, 01:42:08 am »
ah.. the white breadboard problem. there's at least 4 different pin pitches out there for the power rail connections...

an a true Psion... hilarious.. spreadsheet on a 2x16 char alpha lcd.... that has to be maximum usability.
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Re: EEVblog #320 - Mailbag Monday
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2012, 03:46:23 am »
Dave

Thanks for the great videos. Regarding the package with the stamps, I think they may be a rendering of a butterfly wing.
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Re: EEVblog #320 - Mailbag Monday
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2012, 08:03:05 am »
What are the other packages? Why didn't you open them? Not enough time?

Should be a bunch of step down converters in the mail, I just want to see what the ripple is like on them at Max rated current.
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Re: EEVblog #320 - Mailbag Monday
« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2012, 08:18:15 am »
Quote from: peter.mitchell on July 24, 2012, 08:03:05 am
What are the other packages? Why didn't you open them? Not enough time?

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He said he had two packages and opened two packages.

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Re: EEVblog #320 - Mailbag Monday
« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2012, 02:03:38 pm »
Quote from: Psi on July 24, 2012, 08:18:15 am
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He said he had two packages and opened two packages.

Watch more carefully. He had four packages and opened two of them to prevent the video becoming too long.
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Re: EEVblog #320 - Mailbag Monday
« Reply #8 on: July 24, 2012, 02:15:11 pm »
i reject your reality and substitute my own
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Re: EEVblog #320 - Mailbag Monday
« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2012, 02:30:41 am »
Intel sold the Xscale division to Marvell. They did that because they came up with their own design that gives superior performance and competitive efficiency. Not surprisingly, the Atom's internal design is similar to that of ARM's.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5365/intels-medfield-atom-z2460-arrive-for-smartphones/2
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Re: EEVblog #320 - Mailbag Monday
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2012, 04:29:27 am »
Quote from: IanB on July 24, 2012, 02:03:38 pm
Watch more carefully. He had four packages and opened two of them to prevent the video becoming too long.

Correct, the video was already going to be long enough. 4 packages would have been too many.
Trying to spread the love around...

Dave.
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Re: EEVblog #320 - Mailbag Monday
« Reply #11 on: July 26, 2012, 08:11:51 am »
Quote from: NiHaoMike on July 26, 2012, 02:30:41 am
Intel sold the Xscale division to Marvell. They did that because they came up with their own design that gives superior performance and competitive efficiency. Not surprisingly, the Atom's internal design is similar to that of ARM's.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5365/intels-medfield-atom-z2460-arrive-for-smartphones/2

so that's how the FPU performance on ARM is similar to a PIII!
*Mind you, the original Atom is based on the PIII
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