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Re: help!!!

From: Rehmi Post <>
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 23:01:05 -0400

Charles J Knight wrote:
> The MIT Lizzy is yet another option -- it is a built-from-scratch
> comptuer, which was designed for use as a wearable.  To this end
> it uses very little power and, thanks to being an MIT project, has
> reasonable support on the internet.  But, you have to build it up
> from discrete chips...at least last time I looked.
> 
>      -- Chuck Knight

Hmm...  You must have read the future Lizzy page, to be written when we all have
inkjet-circuitry-on-fabric-nanoprinters in our homes.

The past and present Lizzy was built by and for wearable users with modest
hardware skills, and as such comprises little more than a stack of PC/104 cards
(main CPU, video, and other interface cards).  It represents one way of building
a wearable PC from off-the-shelf components (PC/104 boards) for about the cost
of an up-to-date desktop machine.  The most complex operations involved are
soldering new connectors onto wire harnesses and mounting the boards in an
aluminum case.

The biggest problem still facing us all is the lack of a good, in-production
head-mounted display suitable for constant use.

-Rehmi Post

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