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Re: wearable from a laptop

Hmmm, for your display, if you want a HMD then you need to throw gobs of
money at it to get something true VGA or better. some camcorder viewfinders
(NOT LCD) have excellent resolution, but converting the vga signal to ntsc
for the viewfinder will degrade your resolution a bit (my sony handi-cam
viewfinder has 3 times the resolution that the M-1 has.. I can read 80
column text on it easily, unfortunately my camcorder refuses to die so I can
rob the viewfinder off it)

If your laptop is atandard IDE then you should be able to go to 512meg on
the hard drive.. but this is 100% bios dependant. I have a gridpad that will
take a 512meg hdd, and one that will not. the only difference is the bios.
some laptop manufacturers like to force the user to use only their brand or
sizes of hard drives.

Lastly...  there is a 60%- 70% chance that you will destroy the laptop
circutry upon extraction. I dis-embowel laptops on a regular basis and I
destroy beyond repair about 25% .  your sucess rate goes up with every death
or sucessful transplant. and be forwarned, there are nasty little tricks
that laptop manufacturers have to mount things that tend to cause
destruction in the process.... treat it like a live bomb and you will have
better success.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mat <>
To:  <>
Date: Thursday, April 08, 1999 4:55 AM
Subject: wearable from a laptop

>I can get hold of and old AST 486 dx100 laptop
>So I have thought to strip it down rebox it remove the keyboard and LCD
>to make it into a wearable PC. (as I dont have money to buy the PC104+
>plus stuff)
>There are a few thing through I would mind some advise on firstly does
>anyone have a suggestion for a VGA or above res. eye piece display to
>use with this system?
>secondly does anyone know of a bios I could replace the existing bios
>with as the existing one
>is limited to the 300mb hard in the laptop and isn't
>replaceable/upgradeable?
>
>mat
>IT Engineer
>Trident Microsystems Ltd
>Tel:  01737 780790   Fax:  01737 771908
>www.tridentdisplays.co.uk
>Website: www.trident-uk.co.uk
>email     : 
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