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RE: Cheap hardware!

 From: "Ryan Grace" <>
>> Hey wear-hard folks - I found a gold mine!  Halted
>> Specialties, a surplus
>> store here in the bay area just acquired a BUNCH of Advantech
>> pc/104 hardware.
>
>In couldn't find any of this stuff on their web site.  Is it already gone?
>Or are they slow to update their site?

small quantity stuff like that they don't list on their web page. They
MIGHT still have some left, but you'll have to call them.

I pointed to the web page so you could find contact information.

NOTE: after really close inspection and trying to power up the board,
I've found that the cpu card has no serial console, and it does NOT
have the pc/104 connector onboard. You need a special adapter to be
able to plug pc/104 cards into this SBC.  I have yet to find it, but I
haven't looked much yet.  Other oddities about this SBC are:

	no video onboard, it must be a separate card (there are plenty
	of SBC's today that have video onboard, just not this one,
	which means increased system size, power consump, cost).  

	no floppy controller.  

	no parallel port.  

	but it DOES have 4in+4out ttl level I/O pins, which is simple
	to read; just an iob will do it.  Good for external system
	control switches and led's (though led's can't be directly
	connected, you'll need either a transistor or some sort of
	driver, due to insufficient current sourcing/sinking).

	It comes with cables for: HDD, com2 serial, ps/2 keyboard &
	mouse,

	It has onboard connectors for: rj45 ethernet, com1 serial.

Also, I'm going back by this afternoon, so if anyone wants anything,
email me in the next 4 hours ()

Looks like I'm probably going to make this into a car mounted system.
<sigh> but that's just me.

   - Kevin Wang

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