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'our' beloved z80, on glass!
Posted: Fri 21 Sep, 2007 4:11 pm
by King Harold
http://www.sharpmz.org/z80glass.htm
It's amazing! but it's not really fast (and it's huge)
I never saw it until today lol
wonder why..
Posted: Sat 22 Sep, 2007 1:18 am
by Liazon
wow, that's actually pretty cool. glass is pretty hard-core if it wasn't for the fact it shatters :'(
i wonder if in the future, it too can get smaller?
Posted: Sat 22 Sep, 2007 8:53 pm
by JoostinOnline
Probably, but smaller=breaks if you breath to hard
Posted: Sat 22 Sep, 2007 9:58 pm
by Delnar_Ersike
JoostinOnline wrote:Probably, but smaller=breaks if you breath to hard
Smaller != Thinner.
Posted: Sat 22 Sep, 2007 10:02 pm
by JoostinOnline
But if it is wider then it is easier to snap.
Posted: Sat 22 Sep, 2007 10:11 pm
by Delnar_Ersike
JoostinOnline wrote:But if it is wider then it is easier to snap.
Wide != not(Thin)
Thick = not(Thin)
5(length)x4(width)x6(thickness) > 5(length)x12(width)x2(thickness)
Man am I feeling dorky today...
Posted: Sat 22 Sep, 2007 10:50 pm
by JoostinOnline
If somthing is smaller, but is not thinner, then it will have to be wider/taller.
Posted: Sat 22 Sep, 2007 11:39 pm
by Liazon
maybe they'll get this to work on plastic sheets or something. it might be a similar idea. printed circuits ^^
Posted: Sat 22 Sep, 2007 11:45 pm
by JoostinOnline
Liazon wrote:maybe they'll get this to work on plastic sheets or something. it might be a similar idea. printed circuits ^^
I don't know if you have ever touched a proccessor, but they are very, very hot. Plastic would just melt.
Posted: Sun 23 Sep, 2007 2:55 am
by Delnar_Ersike
JoostinOnline wrote:Liazon wrote:maybe they'll get this to work on plastic sheets or something. it might be a similar idea. printed circuits ^^
I don't know if you have ever touched a proccessor, but they ar very, very hot. Plastic would just melt.
Then they'll have to print a fan onto the plastic as well. XD
Posted: Sun 23 Sep, 2007 10:22 am
by King Harold
Besides, glass is much MUCH closer to silicon than any kind of plastic
Glass is mainly silicon dioxide (aka sand) with some additions to enhance its chemical properties.
But then there's something else, a processor this huge wouldn't really get all that hot would it.. It is its own heatsink
And on the thinner/wider etc..
If they'd just scale it down, they'd scale it down. Meaning it will get as much thinner as less wide so it would be just the same - on a smaller scale. Of course that would make it both faster and hotter..
Posted: Sun 23 Sep, 2007 2:22 pm
by Liazon
JoostinOnline wrote:Liazon wrote:maybe they'll get this to work on plastic sheets or something. it might be a similar idea. printed circuits ^^
I don't know if you have ever touched a proccessor, but they are very, very hot. Plastic would just melt.
probably would need to engineer a very heat resistant plastic then, but at that point, it might just impede the desired electrical or physical properties. oh well ^^ i might have been confusing this w/ the printed solar panels, or printed nanotubes.
ya, glass sure takes a lot of punishment when it's just chemistry, and not somebody dropping it to the ground.