Hi - If you find a system here in the US, I can ship it to you. I do that sort of thing all the time. If you want a fairly simple bulky machine, you can take a 386 desktop type motherboard, put low height cards in the ISA slots, and end up with a fairly decent, if somewhat of a power hog, usable machine. (Who knows - maybe I should throw some of the spare parts here together & make one, sure have the parts other than the M1 which hasn't arrived yet.) I could probably get that whole system (motherboard, 8Mb RAM, VGA card, IDE hard drive controller, etc. put together for not much more than $50 USD including shipping to the UK (Maybe less, I'll have to look at it.) More RAM is findable (I have a source for 16Mb or 8Mb 30-pin SIMMs here locally, need to go look at them and buy 4! Just keep managing to miss them.) I think a set of 4 4Mb 30-pin SIMMs has gone as low as $25 or so (may be less now, too. I know a lot of surplus store folks.) You'd also need batteries, a DC-DC converter to convert those batteries' power to 12V and 5V, and so on. Maybe that should be a project here. Now, if someone'll just make a 640x480 Mono Nipkow display... Mark Graham Cannell wrote: > > I am On a University Electronic Engineering Degree and therefore I am very > interested in Computers. > > I have recently become very interested in the idea of having a Wearable > computer with Linux/windows on it?? Unfortunately as I am a Student I would > not like to spend a great fortune on such a system. Also to add to my > problems I am studying in the United Kingdom and am unsure if such products > as PC/104 computer boards are readily available as they are in the US?? > > Basically I am looking to produce a simple system 386/486 that would run > Linux or a simple windows 3.11?? but as I am quite new to this idea I am > looking for advice as to what I require and where I may be able to get it > from. > > I am very confident that I could be able to assemble a system with the > correct advice and components but if there is anyone out there on the net > who may be able to put together a simple system or has an old used system > they no longer require and would be able deliver it to me I would be quite > great full and of course would pay the required cost of the system + Postage > and personal prophet (remember though I am only a student) > > Thank you any advice/offers will be appreciated > Graham Cannell () > > -- > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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