Comments on: Ben Heck’s Atari 800 Laptop

By: Josh McCormick

Josh McCormick — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:20:17 +0000

Another item I’d love to buy.

By: mathieu

mathieu — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:37:38 +0000

Aww… I hated the 800xl since i had the (cheaper/older/crappier) 600xl :(
Never had a chance to explore the power of that friggin’ thing… Glad I got myself a C64 back then :)

By: andrew

andrew — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:30:32 +0000

yea the battery was probably not one of his main goals… a decent li-ion or li-poly pack would be small and lightweight yet last for hours of use. but still, this is pretty cool.

By: WarriorRocker

WarriorRocker — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 04:45:02 +0000

Yea, both IE6 and FF 1.0 seemed to like the url just fine. Anyway the work from benheck is always quite amazing. Even if we can all find room for improvement it is still quite a feat to begin with.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 02:54:51 +0000

The url worked for me without the www. (firefox 1.5.0.8)

By: Lambda_drive

Lambda_drive — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 02:19:46 +0000

I don’t get why ben would use those crappy batteries from the protable LCD tv. He could have gotten a lot more play time if you used R/C batteries.There are R/C betteries that have mah’s as large as 4300, you’ll get a lot more play time with that much mah.

By: Madouc

Madouc — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:50:10 +0000

the url link could do with a ‘www.’ it doesn’t work without it.
besides that.
i think it’s a very cool hack.