This '90s Casio PDA Is a High-Resolution, Surprisingly Powerful Pocket Sleeper Build
Pseudonymous maker and lover of classic personal digital assistants (PDAs) "TundraLegendZ," hereafter simply "Tundra," has turned a Casio from the '90s into a sleeper build with high-resolution color display — while reusing the original keyboard.
"Hardware wise, it's been upgraded completely, sporting its original shell," Tundra explains of the project. "I've heard someone say a cyberdeck isn't about what it can do but rather what it means to you; I've always loved the vintage organizers, they aren't produced anymore and with modern Python code they could be daily drivers. What better way to take an original and absolutely gut it and give it a new life whilst reusing as much of the original as possible?"
Originally released in the mid-1990s, the Casio SF-5580 that forms the basis for Tundra's build was the cheapest model in the SF-5x80 family — with just 128kB of memory for storing names, addresses, and telephone...
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