Re: Casio Zoomers to blossom with enhancements

PDCChrisD@aol.com
Thu, 27 Apr 95 00:17 PDT

Hi,
Unfortunately, the Zoomer CPU is a COMPLETE PC on a chip! This means that it
is based on the V20 CPU with PCMCIA, Serial, LCD Controller and EMS
Extensions in hardware.

The system CAN'T be just "bumped up" by changing the clock crystal due to the
interfaces to the 3 to 5v converters required for the serial IO and the Infrar
ed. Also the crystal is used to drive the whole system internally via a
clock splitter!

AGAIN, AN UPGRADE WOULD REQUIRE A COMPLETE REPLACEMENT OF THE MOTHERBOARD,
AND THE RAM/ROM DAUGHTER CARD! Also, I suspect that it WON'T pass FCC Class
B requirements either at that speed!

Chris De Herrera