Hi! I've been trying to make a wearable out of my not too overpowered T1000SE for a long time now, and I'm almost beginning to give up. I feel I just don't know enough about electronics to go through with it. I have tons of questions, many of them still unanswered. This has made me think: "Maybe I'll just wreck this silly old laptop, and buy the cheapest PC/104 system I can get". I mean, that gives me a VGA output, an IDE connector, a keyboard connector and (maybe) a mouse connector(?). So, how cheap can I get a used PC/104 386 system? I'm not sure if I'm going to throw the laptop away. To make a wearable out of it I'll only need the following things: (1) A replacement for the laptop's broken floppy drive. (2) A display driver connected to the parallel port and a nipkow disk and some optics. (3) A twiddler (or similar device). I guess number 1's going to be a hard one. About number 3, I hear the twiddler uses the keyboard port only for power, while the serial port does all the real work? If that's true, can I just steal power from somewhere else? -- Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent. -- Walt Kelly -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org
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