Moophus & I have TimeLine units, they are NOT a PC/104, but they appear to be re-workable to a largish unit (I'm working on one for the girlfriend's wheelchair, it's been put on hold as I tried to do a group buy, that fell through due to someone cornering the market.) 4 SLOW serial ports (8250 UARTs, maybe 16450's, I plan to research replacing the COM chips [SMC FDC37C651/652] with upgraded ones with a faster UART set.) 1 ISA slot in it, a slot for a proprietary PCMCIA plug-in board (price/availability unknown), uses a ?non-standard? Epson floppy drive, and a laptop HDD. You're limited to a 1/2" tall HDD if you also have a floppy installed permanantly (floppy's stacked atop the HDD) - if you only mount the HD, you could (I think) put a taller Laptop HD in there. $99 through TimeLine, let me search my bookmarks here: http://www.best.com/~mns/im403/ for images of the machine, though in figure 3 I believe that the port marker "LPT Port" may be something else IIRC. TimeLine's Web Page is at http://www.digisys.net/timeline/ though they don't currently have anything on this embedded computer (It's advertised in Popular Electronics, IIRC) NiMax supposedly has the floppy for this unit, I logged the URL but haven't done more yet (I'd use one of my 3.5" disk adapters), they're at http://www.nimax.com/products/pricelist/epson.htm. It'd be the last line on the page, I think, the $83 Epson 1140 Floppy Drive (Lots to pay for a floppy!) Mark Williswargames wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Omar Jenkins wrote: > > > On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Christopher E. Brown wrote: > > > Anyone have suggestions on a PC/104 Linux usable *cheap* mb? > > > 486 prefered, 386 workable. All I need is 2 serial (16550 pref, 8250 ok), > > > IDE, and the ability to add a one or 2 slot pcmcia frame. > > > > Check out http://www.mbhs.edu/~ojenkins/wearable/pricelist.html > > do you have any links for the timeline? or suggestions on where to find one? > had anyone ever used one of these? a even a 16Mhz 486 doesn't sound too bad > for a simple wearable. more punch than a simple organizer, less restrictive > than a PDA... > > Be Well, > Chris > > -- > wargames[@]freenet[.]edmonton[.]ab[.]ca pager: 403.917.6448 > http://www.edmc.net/~wargames/
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