"In science, the question is not why, but why not !" (Cave Johnson)
That should be enough, but for more details, Libretto hard drive is dead, no way for me to buy a new one due to the so poor performance of the CPU (Pentium MMX, do you ever know those existed one day ? They used to count Mhz in those times !). But screen is working perfectly well and Raspberry Pi and Arduino are easy to handle and connect to various type of display.
Don't we see device hacking here all day long ? Just another one I guess ...
Any guess to the initial question ?