[Xastir] Mobile installation

[Curt Mills]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, N1OFZ wrote:

> Anyone have a mobile computer installed in their car running Xastir?

Yea, or rather, I did.  It's now in one of our SAR vehicles, and I
need to build up another one for my use.


> I finally got everything running as I wanted, but I can't seem to find
> a suitable display.  All the 4-8 inch displays I have found (and
> purchased) are composite video.  When I hook them up the maps look
> terrible due to the lack of resolution.  My wife has a 15 inch lcd
> display on her computer that will work (assuming I can convince her to
> give it up) but it is bigger than I'd like.  Anyone aware of a
> something around 8 - 10 inches that will do at least 800 X 600?
>
> If I can't find something suitable (and priced affordably) I may trash
> the whole mini-atx computer and install either an old Toshiba laptop or
> my recently retired 12 inch Powerbook.  Anyone have experience in
> separating and extending displays on laptops?  I'd like to mount the
> cpu under the seat or in the glove box and the display on the dash.

I'm using a P133 64MB touch-screen all-in-one PC put out by
Intermec (Model 5055).  I took out a flash disk, put in a hard disk,
and got Linux/X11 running on it.  My next version will get a 12GB
drive instead of the 6.4GB I put in the first one.  I'm always
running out of room for maps.

This one's only 640x480, but it was working well for me.  I think it
was originally designed to go onto fork lifts and such.  It's
waterproof as well as long as you don't mount it upside down.

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