I am the author of PicoCalc. I had no idea anyone had posted it here on HN, that it had so many points and comments, or that anyone still remembers it. Makes my day :)

Nice, yeah I figured worth another discussion perhaps because the video actually shows a lot of different cool things you can do with it

Related PicoCalc: A fully-functional clone of VisiCalc for the PICO-8 (237 points, 2023, 47 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37746663">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37746663</a>

I am exited whenever I see something with a physical qwerty keyboard.I could really ditch my smartphone if one of those could run Linux reasonably well.LilyGo do have the perfect device and keyboard [0] but Linux on the ESP32-S3 is tough.- [0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lilygo.cc&#x2F;products&#x2F;t-deck-plus-1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lilygo.cc&#x2F;products&#x2F;t-deck-plus-1</a>

No, i saw a project using a Pico-size Linux board in the picocalc shell, which is exactly what i want it&#x27;s just early in development. There are several cheap riscV boards now in the pico form factor that can run a full distro

I believe the ones able to run Linux are the uConsole serie, which are bigger.

I see the mention of a version that can run a full Linux distro, and that&#x27;s been my dream for ages--something this shape and size, but that i can use like a normal (tiny, slow) computer. Hopefully that moves along, or maybe i need to hack my own together with this milk-v board i have laying around

Picocalc, a Modern Retro Computer? [video]