Dapper on portables

[Brian Fahrlander]

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Patton Echols wrote:

> What if you tried one of the "Damn Small Linux" boxes designed for auto 
> use like this:
> http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/store/Mini_ITX_Systems/Car_PC_Barebones_MII_10000

    Until I saw (and understood) the PC104, this was precisely what I
had in mind. The XoomPC is slick, and perfect for the guy that wants to
doodle with mp3s and maybe video in the car...and there'll be a lot of
that eventually...but the expandability is small. With the PC104, you
can add several (or just one) A/D card and your hardware solution is
done. You can switch out a 586 for the 286 you start with, or you can
add several sub-processors to an existing device.  Plus, the parts, at
least on eBay, are a ton cheaper. Though I do miss the slick case...

> Perhaps you set it up to boot w/o monitor or keyboard and do it's gps 
> think, configure with a flash drive to store stuff, It looks like they 
> offer cards that support PCMCIA, so you could add wireless networking 
> any you can access your data via a point to point wireless from a laptop 
> . . . .  It would take some hacking, but it would work I bet.

    This PC104 family has GPS modules, Cellular, and all kinds of crazy
things for general use. Including modules to hold disk-on-chip that you
can boot from, once you settle on a kernel image.  Nifty!

> Here's another that may require less hacking . . .
> https://logisysus.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=99

    That's a source I hadn't seen before- there's a lot of folks doing
this, these days, huh?

     What I'd really like to find are some 486 X terminals...diskless,
able to connect to the various machines onboard.  Or at least just a
decent LCD screen for system monitoring...


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 Brian Fahrländer                 Christian, Conservative, and Technomad
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