[Xastir-Dev] Re: Package or not?

[Jack Twilley]

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>>>>> "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.

Jack> That'd be a great way for hiking hams to take xastir into the
Jack> woods.  What I'm thinking about is the kind of thing that would
Jack> fit in well with ad-hoc EOCs.  Something analogous to an
Jack> Xstation.  I have an old NEC Xstation -- all it needs is a
Jack> monitor, a keyboard, a mouse, and an Ethernet connection to a
Jack> device that can provide it with a bootfile, and it's good to go.
Jack> A small box that runs on car batteries and has a plug for video,
Jack> sound (for direct radio connection), serial (for TNC connection)
Jack> and USB (keyboard, mouse, Ethernet, future expansion) that boots
Jack> off of Compact Flash.  No moving parts, low maintenance, easy
Jack> upgrades, inexpensive.  That's what I'm gunning for.

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

The Atio CarPC Eden ESP4000 has been attracting my attention.  Replace
one of my unused DIN bays with a PC that would do all this and more.

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

I look forward to seeing pics of this in production. :-)

Jack.
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