3 Mar
1998
3 Mar
'98
3:39 p.m.
OK... while we're on off topic, ;-) Is there any way that I could get my
hands on the individual componets for making a "nano PC", prefferably just a
small one?
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Yowza <yowza(a)yowza.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, March 03, 1998 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: Off-charter chatter: nano-PC's
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Tim Shoppa wrote:
> I just received some brochures from my local embedded PC supplier, and
some
of the
miniaturization that's being done is incredible. There's a
company in Germany called JUMPtec which sells a product called the
DIMM-PC; it puts a 33 MHz 80386, 4 Mbytes of RAM, a bootable flash
harddisk and an AMI BIOS, a real time clock, and interfaces for
external IDE drives, floppy drives, printer, 2 COM ports, and keyboard
all on a board that is only 68mm x 40mm (that's 1.57 x 2.68 inches.)
Wow, a keyboard in that form factor is incredible :-) You're right, there
are lots of choices in the embedded space. The smallest full-blown PC
with built-in display and keyboard that I know of has gotta be the IBM
PC-110. For a size comparison of a normal laptop, a PC-110, and IBM's
(new?) credit-card computer, see:
http://www.kako.com/museum/ibm.html
To get even further off-topic, has anybody here written 6805 wristapps for
their Timex/Microsoft DataLink watch? Try:
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/7650/
-- Doug