Timothy, Have you look at the Advantech PCM series?? The 5862 takes standard simm RAM (up to 128Mb), and up to 200/233Mhz MMX Pentium CPU, has VGA & LCD output onboard, 16-Bit ESS soundcard on-board, 5V power input (12V for improved sound), etc, etc, etc. apparently, the price is around US$400 (inc. wiring kit). Check it out at www.advantech.com/epc/prselect.htm#1 I believe this board is already being used by a few people in different applications (wearables, car-mounted, etc). I'll be getting mine soon. Hope it helps. At 20:53 01/09/98 -0400, Timothy Gray wrote: >Has anyone tried using the 486 embedded pc board that Jameco sells? I was >looking for the embedded PC card I have here and found that it requires + >and - 5v along with the +-12volts just to boot! The only thing bothering >me about the Jameco product is that it states that is needs a whopping 5 >amps! Has anyone done any real power testing on this thing? with a 486sx >chip or a slow 486-66 I wonder if it really needs the whole 5 amps. I can >get 6.5 amps out of my DC inverter for the 5volts but only .2amps for 12 >volts. I keep looking at the Jameco card as many of these other >card-computer companies still want $600-$800.00USD for their 386/486 and >then you have to buy ram,etc at highly inflated prices from them. Matthew Watt | "Very funny Scotty!"| "Now beam down my CLOTHS!!" - Kirk -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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