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
Received on Tue Mar 03 1998 - 13:33:43 GMT