Off-charter chatter: nano-PC's - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

3 Mar 1998

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 &lt;yowza(a)yowza.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
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