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  1. Re: Idea here *ouch, thinking hurts* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Mini Board PC

    Well I tried to post some links, but nothing shows, so I don't know if it was lost. So just in case, here you are: http://reality.sgi.com/kjw_engr /Wearables/pc104.htm, http://wearables.blu.org/hardwear.html , http://www.rtdusa.com/pc104men.htm and www.pc104.org

  2. PC-104 is better... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Mini Board PC
    If you don't need the absolute smallest material, you're much better sticking to PC/104 and PC/104+ products (the first page didn't say whether the Mighty Mite was PC/104 compatible, but I guess it is anyway).
    Because PC/104 try to be (is) exactly what PC are to computers: standards cards that can be assembled like lego.
    • PC/104 is simply an ISA bus that is stackable for small cards (see for instance the picture on top at http://www.pc104.com/
    • PC/104+ is the same idea with a PCI-bus. Drawback: I only saw a handful of PC/104+ products in the huge amount of PC/104 products (since the only actual use I would have for this would be a 100 Mbps router, I postponed my dreams :-)

    A good starting point is Wearables Central (http://wearables.blu.org/) with numerous links to ressources.
    If you just want to have an idea of the prices, the problem is that numerous vendor don't display their price, so web site hunting is a bit frustrating. A very good page is those of PC/104 page by Kevin Wang, it is worth a dozen hours of search on the WWW. But maybe the prices are outdated by now.
    Last time I checked, the "typical" product was a 486 (or AMD 586, glorified 486) at 100-133 Mhz. The Pentium 100/133 were sort of high-end products :-), and rather expensive. Compared to the Pentium at $500-$1000, only one product surprised me being comparatively rather powerful: the PC/104 with a Cyrix 686 MediaGX at 233 Mhz for $900 from Real Time Devices USA (their AMD 586/133 less powerful are at $600. Is the MediaGX crappy or something ?). But I think accessories might be expensive, and extensibility might not be optimal (no networking, no IDE -> extra $$$ for additional Ethernet/whatever compared to some other cards).

    I hope that PC/104(+) will become widely commercially successful, so that we start to see the prices dropping, and might have a chance to get fun assembling micro-PCs :-)

  3. More tiny boards. by SEWilco · · Score: 1 · on Car and Home MP3 Players

    I found where Wearables Central went to. See their long list of hardware there. [ The green decorations are navigation buttons without a clue ]

  4. More powerful... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Pictures of the Palm V

    If you're looking for more powerful portable computers, for instance to run Linux, wearables.blu.org might help (as might its link to www.controlled.com).