I've never heard of a backlight mod for the revo, has it ever been done?
There was a rumour that on some versions of the revo ROM if you pressed fn+spacebar when the battery was low it would show a "battery too low for backlight" message, as the 5/5mx do. The rumour further went that there was unpopulated space for a backlight inverter on the revo motherboard. I've upgraded the RAM on a revo and I haven't seen any evidence for this. I think perhaps there was just a hangover in the ROM from the 5mx, but I've not even seen the message....
Having said that, if the revo does toggle the backlight GPIO when you press fn+space it would be possible to retrofit one if you could find space for an inverter board. EL backlights can be cut to size with scissors
To be honest, I used a revo as my main driver for a while and although I loved the size of it, I lost my data a few times and the keyboard is just really sub par compared to the 5mx. If they could have got a proper keyboard with decent travel into that footprint, and a micro SD slot, it would have been epic.
The conan does have a backlight
(a blue one
)!
My other prototypes are a psion 5 with transparent case, a bright green prototype 5mx
(a lime
), and Roger Nolan's prototype 5mx
(which is bright yellow - a banana
). I also have developer motherboards for the 7/netbook/netbook pro. I have other rare machines too; an original organiser with all accessories and most software, the acorn clones, ericsson MC218, MC400, wood effect 3a... I think that's it off the top of my head. I am missing some things like a linecker 5mx, some of the 3a special editions, transparent organiser 2, MC200, MC400, and perhaps the rarest of all, the white psion netbook pro LX
(linux version
). I've been collecting for 25+ years and to be honest it's gotten a little out of hand... I've had to stop myself collecting more for a while now
!
Edited by munchausen 2021-02-18 9:55 PM
