Vaughan Pratt wrote: > > >To a novice like me the hurdles would seem small. Instead of designing the > >motherboard layout to be thin and wide taking up the length of the portable's > >innards it would be fat and compact taking up a drive bay space. Instead of > >spreading the ram slots, graphics board, keyboard and other connections around > >they would be concentrated in the drive bay area. Slide the wearable in and > >it connects to the screen, keyboard, hd, etc. > > A 166MHz Pentium with 32MB (std.) DRAM from Cell Computing fits this > spec to a T. This is an SMOS clone (wrt to physical form factor --- > Type III --- and pinout --- 236 pins along the long side) that's ahead > of SMOS wrt performance (SMOS is currently only at 586, no Pentium yet) > and off-the-shelf-ness (SMOS uses custom parts, Cell uses standard > components including a standard notebook SO-DIMM which the user can > easily upgrade to 128MB---I'm currently using 64MB in mine). Now if > only Cell had included a 32MB flash! I agree, the CardPC product allows for upgradability, and has a tiny form factor. We managed to squeeze a 2.5" HD, PC-104 PCMCIA card, Intelec carier board, P200 CardPC and ISR into a 2"x4.8"x6.8" package that is user-upgradable. -- Brian Rudy Engineering Operations Manager The Tech Museum of InnovationVoice: (408) 795-6157 Fax: (408) 279-7167 http://www.thetech.org -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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