On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 03:48:19PM -0800, Doug Sutherland wrote: > plugged in an Ampro dual PCMCIA PC/104 module into the PCM-5822 and > did another measurement. From the lowest point on the SBC (CF socket) > to the highest point on the PCMCIA card, it's almost exactly 1.5 inches. > That's still too fat for my likings but it's much better than EM-350, > especially since that measurement includes the hard drive (microdrive > in CF socket), it has two PCMCIA slots, and everything runs on five > volts. I still want to find an SBC no bigger than 4x6 inches length/ > width and less than an inch thick with a single PCMCIA slot. > 1.5 is pretty good! The problem with the EM-350 lay out is that the CF and PCMCIA are stacked on the bottom of the board, while the VGA, USB, ect are on top, making it thick in a not so obvious (or easy to deal with) way. > > The PC-2553 has the VGA, serial, USB connectors off the board on > > there own daughter board so it can be placed in a way that is more > > comfortable and less bulky (I hope) > > Is the daughter board stacked or can it be placed side-by-side via > cables? What connectors are on the PC-2553 itself? Is it useless > without the daughter board? Do you know the height of the PC-2553 > and daughter cards? I haven't gotten it yet, but from the PDF's it shows the daughter board is as being small, in fact only big enough to hold the needed connectors. It is connected to the main board with a ribbon cable (that I'm probably going to need to lengthen.. it looks only a few inches long) The PC-2553 I think can been seen in 2 different ways.. 1) If you don't want the bulk of standard connectors.. the pin layouts are there for you to hack to your hearts content.. serial, USB, ps2, ect.. 2) If you aren't into custom connectors, it's pretty damn useless without the optional $18 daughter board and cable set I probably fall into #2 right now, but I've heard others (Doug mostly :) wanting for an easily hackable board to get rid of those big ugly connectors. This may be it.. I'll know more later this month... M@ -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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