On 8 June 2013 06:38, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
Going through stuff on the shelf and I've run
across a couple of
486-based fully-integrated LCD/touchscreen machines. One is a SCAN
Corporation SCANtouch Model 3000, the other is a Planar Systems box.
Similarities include limited memory (2x 72-pin SIMM sockets on the
SCANtouch or 4x 30-pin SIMM sockets on the Planar, both with
"double-sided SIMM" support, so 64MB or 32MB max respectively), one
ISA socket (no PCI), onboard NE2000, serial, parallel, 2.5" PATA
disk... these systems will run MS-DOS, of course, and Win95 (the touch
screen on the SCANtouch is old enough that it apparently doesn't work
with Win98 mouse drivers, according to forum posts I dug up). I
really don't care about running DOS or Win95 on a touchscreen/LCD
machine
Just a thought, but it would be genuinely interesting, IMHO, to try to
get either one of the 1980s pen-based OSes - Go, Penpoint, Magic Cap,
anything that might work on the hardware - working on such a box, or
failing that, original PenWindows.
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