Bryan, A few months ago when I purchased the Advantech 5822 and companion PC/104 PCMCIA board, I figured I couldn't go wrong by having a stack height of just 2. With the extra long board that the 5822 is, I had just enough room to put the HD above it inside the case. While it is nice to have all this self-contained in one box, part of my goal was to spread much of the components around my vest. The thought of being able to go with a multimedia-enabled true-sized PC/104 board (90mm x 96mm) and use USB for all radios instead of PCMCIA is intriguing. Total stack size: 1. The challenges remaining are protecting the now external harddrive and finding real estate for all the connectors coming out of a 100mm x 115mm x 25mm box. (Extra length needed for internal connector room) For now, I'm fairly content with the 5822 enclosure. I'm able to keep the HD, DC/DC converter, and 2 PCMCIA cards inside the single box. While it's not as small as the a single stack enclosure would be, it only adds a little extra width and gains the ability to internalize the HD. I guess it all comes down to how much width you're willing to deal with or how much you're willing to separate the components. What kind of method of wearing are you going with? Jason Bryan Hurley wrote: > > So I want to get Ricochet in the near future, but am not sure whether to > go USB/serial external or PCMCIA... external lets me place it somewhere > else, but adds bulk, but somewhere else, in addition to more > batteries...though I hear they last 6 hours.... Versus PCMCIA, which adds > bulk to the PC with height, but then it is isolated in one place, and then > uses the PC battery... > > Now that Lucent will have a USB 802.11, I can have ricochet and 802.11 > either internal or external... two antennas close to each other with > PCMCIA and close to the body.. or go external and put the antennas away > from each other and further from important body parts... > > Any thoughts? > > Link to Lucent's press release: > http://www.lucent.com/press/1100/001128.mea.html > > Here is an article detailing Lucent's product in eweek: > > Lucent unveils wireless LAN USB client > > By Carmen Nobel (December 4,2000, page 47, Eweek) > Lucent Technologies Inc. last week announced a USB client for its Orinoco > line of > wireless networking products. -- ~`~`^~'~^`~^~`~^`~'~`^`~'^`~`^` tear here ~^'`~^`~^~`'^~`~'^`~^~'^~`'~`'~ Jason Cohen mailto:Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs Distributed Processing Lab 1 Federal Street, A&E-3W, Camden, NJ 08102 p:856.338.3915 f:856.338.4144 -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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