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Re: wearable telephone gateway

From: "Dr. Terrance Boult" <>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 07:18:29 -0500 (EST)

>>Alan Cox wrote:
>>
>>> The IBM PC110's certainly make great palmtop PC's and with the base station
>>> attached will drive a TNC (unfortunately the 486SLC CPU isnt powerful enough
>>> to use the soundmodem driver). With the toshbia libretto palmtops you might
>>> actually manage that.
>>
>>I have a Libretto, great Linux machine, but unfortunately it doesn't
>>have any audio input, only output, probably the most annoying feature.

Did not do it myself (yet), but I recall a demo at the wearables conference
where someone (from MIT media I believe) went in and just soldered an input connection
to the sound-blaster chip.  Input support is there, just no access. 

Terry Boult --- Vision and Software Technology Lab, EECS Dept. Lehigh Univ.
		         http://www.eecs.lehigh.edu/~tboult

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