Dapper on PC104

[Brian Fahrlander]

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    I was looking on eBay for portables when I somehow came upon PC104
machines for very cheap.  The associated A/D and D/A cards were
similarly very cheap.

    Let me rewind for some folks to catch up.

    I was looking for a battery-powered way to use Dapper aboard my
trailer (http://CounterMoon.org). I was thinking something might be done
with an iPod, but PC104 looks so much more useful.

    "PC104" is basically your garden-variety PC, if it needed to live in
a 3.5x3.5" stack. I'm told that compatibility is very high on them, and
they have tons of capabilities, because the bus that runs across each
card in your stack is like ISA. And everything is very +5V, with some
occasional +12V and a little -5 as well.  This makes for a very
configurable stack of cards to be any kind of computer you're wanting,
including clusters. (!)

    Has anyone here had PC104-type experience?  Do ya think Dapper would
run on a 486 with 32M of RAM? (Those are the cheapest cards I can find.)

    :)

    This looks like a lot of fun!
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 Brian Fahrländer                 Christian, Conservative, and Technomad
 Evansville, IN                              http://Fahrlander.net/brian
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