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Atom-Based Mini-ITX Motherboard Available

Posted by kdawson on from the small-is-beautiful dept.

LWATCDR writes "A company out of the UK is selling an Intel Atom-based Mini-ITX motherboard. It has a riser for two PCI cards, two SATA ports, and an IDE ports so it could make a great little NAS, firewall, MAME box, or low-power workstation. To add to the fun it has a real parallel port 'perfect for hardware hacking,' a real RS-232 port 'perfect for data acquisition,' and two USB ports. The price is around $100, give or take, and hopefully it will come down over time. All in all a nice system to run Linux, WindowsXP, BSD, or maybe even OpenSolaris on."

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  1. Atom-based? That's small! by YouWantFriesWithThat · · Score: 5, Funny

    I could sniff a line of them and have a LAN in my sinus cavity!

  2. Serial AND Parallel by simonbp · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, it has a serial and a parallel port! That's great! Now I can hook up both my MS serial bus mouse AND my dot-matrix printer; I'll be in Windows 3.1 heaven!