3 Dec
2005
3 Dec
'05
12:18 a.m.
Am zaterdag, 03.12.05, um 00:49 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Tony Duell:
I use a portable DOLCH 386 for that : Lunchbox design with keyboard and
plasma display.
Fits a standard PC motherboard, mine now has a 133 MHz Pentium inside.
It is stocked with Eprom programmer , BMC 20 analog/digital IO card,
SCSI card , Ethernet, parallel port and dual RS232.
It does not (yet) have USB.
IDE and floppy interfaces are brought out, for those few occasions I
still need a 5 1/4 Floppy.
Best of all, these Dolch are very cheap on ebay.
Main problems are : limited to the supplied ISA VGA card, haven't yet
figured out how to use a PCI card for that
Also limited to monochrome 640x480, because of the Plasma display.
If you look upon the motherboard as a replaceable part, just like the
CPU itself, it should fit Tony's requirements.
( and it does read PDF's, although at standard VGA it is not a
pleasure. )
Jos
Yep,
personally I'd only buy a Mac mini if it was 10-20% bigger and
came with
some real ports - say serial, parallel, and SCSI. Then it'd be a nice
compact
THis reminds me of something that I've been looking for :
A reasonably portable computer -- meaning it can be mains powered, but
must be all one box (including keyboard and display), although I
suppose
I would accepta machine that needs a serial terminal (although not a
PC-like machine that needs a monitor and keyboard