Reviving an old Windows CE palmtop with AA batteries
A Windows CE Palmtop I have an old NEC MobilePro 780. I got it to install Linux or a *BSD on, and achieved some success with that project (about 18 years ago?!), but the machine really didn’t have the horsepower to be a good UNIX portable (168 MHz NEC VR4121 processor, 32MB RAM, whatever storage you had in the CompactFlash spot), nor was/is the Linux desktop experience really optimized for the screen geometry (it has an 8.1" 640x240 DSTN display). But I hung on to it, because it’s got a great keyboard and it’s perfectly usable as a Windows CE machine, and why not? But over time I’ve misplaced the AC adapter, the battery is toast, and, well, yeah. I didn’t see the point in spending $50+ for a dubious quality replacement battery, so it sat. NEC MobilePro But at 9.6" x 5.2" x 1.1" and 1.7 lbs., it will totally fit in even a LoungeFly, and a moment of distracted Googling led me to learning about the MC-BA10 adapter, which lets the MobilePro run off of (4) AA batterie...