[Xastir-Dev] Re: Package or not?

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Fri, 16 May 2003, Jack Twilley wrote:

> >>>>> "Curt" == Curt Mills <Curt> writes:
>
> Curt> You mean like the latest Sharp Zaurus that fits in your pocket,
> Curt> has a 640x480 color LCD display, and runs Linux?  That's what
> Curt> I'm gunning for.  Someday.
>
> That'd be a great way for hiking hams to take xastir into the woods.
> What I'm thinking about is the kind of thing that would fit in well
> with ad-hoc EOCs.  Something analogous to an Xstation.  I have an old
> NEC Xstation -- all it needs is a monitor, a keyboard, a mouse, and an
> Ethernet connection to a device that can provide it with a bootfile,
> and it's good to go.  A small box that runs on car batteries and has a
> plug for video, sound (for direct radio connection), serial (for TNC
> connection) and USB (keyboard, mouse, Ethernet, future expansion) that
> boots off of Compact Flash.  No moving parts, low maintenance, easy
> upgrades, inexpensive.  That's what I'm gunning for.

Yea.  That's what I want in my Jeep and in our comms truck for SAR,
with a touch-screen.

PC-104 stack with compact flash for a drive would do it.  They even
have PC-104 VGA and SoundBlaster cards available.  Have a PC-104
386EX and a PC-104 VGA card sitting here on my desk.

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