Originally published at: Webserver running on a $25 Casio calculator | Boing Boing
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Is there anything graphical calculators can’t do?
(Mildly disappointed it wasn’t an old-ish HP… but this is really neat!)
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even more amazing is that it’s still up and running even after having been Boinged!
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It resolves the page a lot faster than BB’s servers do 
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No ads
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The SH4 family of processors was used in the Sega Dreamcast.
My takeaway is not that such an underpowered device can serve up web pages, it is that such a humble device has so much power.
Some research suggests that the calculator is a fraction of the clock speed of the Dreamcast, but still respectable.
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I can’t help but see the baby hand on the keyboard as belonging to the woman looking to her right.
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No dynamic content at all. You can run a blog-style site like BB on something really wimpy if you generate static HTML every time you upload an article instead of building it dynamically from a database every time a page request comes in. See also https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/, a blog running on a Raspberry Pi powered by a solar panel. It goes one step further by downsampling images to low res, one bit dithered versions rather than hosting them somewhere else.
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That is a great website! Not only do I actually like the aesthetics of the downsampled images (proving once again that restrictions are what drives creativity), the first article I saw on there was also a deep dive into a topic that has always fascinated me: sail cargo transport companies.
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Cool idea. Great content, too. Will read again.
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I never got into the whole graphical calculator culture-- the first high school math textbooks which required one were after my time. But wasn’t there a period in which graphics calculators were intentionally underpowered for standardized testing reasons?
No Javascript libraries to import, manage, trim, call, and then unload again.
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No idea. All I know is that my Casio helped with finishing school and my HP helped me through uni. And was an irreplaceable tool when starting working.
Back in my day at some point in 8th or 9th grade we all had to get calculators but everything even the slightest bit programmable was banned. We used them for about one week and then we stopped doing any calculations for which they were useful for several years.
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