Off-charter chatter: nano-PC's

From: Hotze <photze_at_batelco.com.bh>
Date: Wed Mar 4 06:43:39 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 <yowza_at_yowza.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_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
>>
>>
>
Received on Wed Mar 04 1998 - 06:43:39 GMT

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