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You would think that with the incredible advances in chip power efficiency, they could produce an edition that would be able to be run off a solar cell instead
by supernova87a 3y ago
You would think that with the incredible advances in chip power efficiency, they could produce an edition that would be able to be run off a solar cell instead of 2 stupid and expensive CR2032 batteries.
- tempodox 3y agoI imagine making your programs persist would be more challenging on a solar-powered device. Rechargeable batteries would be ideal, but the case is probably too flat for those.
- layer8 3y agoThe standby current of the original HP Voyager series was extremely low, a set of batteries (3 x LR44) would last a decade or longer. Even with batteries removed, the internal capacitor could retain the memory contents for hours.
- slowhand09 3y agoI have an 11c. I bought it new in 1985. On its 4th set of batteries.