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Re: Wearable Thinclient

Actually it'd be quite usable for Robin - her server's sitting 3 feet
(or less) behind her, on her wheelchair, with power & net cable (or
wireless connect) to her PC110, is my current plan;  she'll always have
a 800Mb laptop drive full of -whatever- on her server, and her PC110
will have 48 Mb of compact flash for local storage.

  Until we find an eyepiece that works with her visual problems, that's
it for her.  But it's a pretty unusual situation, yep.  <G>

  Only - thinking about that lets me think, why don't I do the same for
myself - have a base in the van, with wireless to my machine (PC110 at
present) - 350kbaud or so wireless lan isn't too horribly thin, for text
file editing <G>

  Mark Willis, 

Timothy Gray wrote:
> 
> True, but a thinclient is 100% useless if you are out of range, on a train,
> driving throught the chunnel,working in the xray lab... etc... A thinclient
> wearable has a use in controlled environments. The only problem is that a
> wearable is in the most un-controllable environment, on the human body.
> Therefore a useable wearable will have to do most of it's processing and
> storage locally and then do the transfers whenever it has time/access. The
> cellular/sattelite communications option is not a serious option for a
> wearable unless you have gobs of cash, Military wearables probably use a
> sattelite burst system, or a long range radio telemetry system while moving
> as sattelite communication from a personal device that is moving is near
> impossible.
> 
> I dont want thin or thick client... I want super-fat-gobs-o-storage server.
> 
> ----------
> : From: Tony Havelka <>
> : To: 'Peter Cochrane' <>
> : Cc: 'w-h' <>
> : Subject: RE: Wearable Thinclient
> : Date: Wednesday, September 02, 1998 4:15 PM
> :
> : Agreed. So that brings us to the issue of transport, and cost thereof.
> In
> : an office environment, one can be physically wired to a network or
> connected
> : through a local wireless system.  Costs associated with this topology
> range
> : from $0 to a fraction of a cent per megabyte.  Move to a cellular based
> : system, bump that cost up to dollars per megabyte. Move to a
> : sideband/wideband system, $10's of dollars per meg.  Satellite, even
> more.
> : The key to a thin client will be cheap access to the server.
> :
> : - Tony
> :
> : > -----Original Message-----
> : > From: Peter Cochrane [mailto:]
> : > Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 1998 2:45 PM
> : > To: liquid
> : > Cc: 'w-h'
> : > Subject: RE: Wearable Thinclient
> : >
> : >
> : > On or off line all the time or sporadically, thin or thick, narrow or
> : > wideband, with or without a display, voice or key I/O -
> : > provided it brings
> : > computing and communication power to me who cares? Pkey
> : > ______________________________________________________________
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