Hi everyone, I think I may have found a decent much lower cost alternative to the Soekris boxes in the form of a Fujitsu Stylistic 1000. They're not very expensive on ebay (under $50) and they got a 640x480 screen, 2 PCMCIA slots and 1 bootable PCMCIA slot. They're basically tablet PCs from about 1996. -Haudy More info http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/FujitsuStylistic1000 http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/DebianApImage http://www.the-labs.com/Stylistic/1000.html http://www.fpc.fujitsu.com/www/support.shtml?support/techspecs/pentabs/Styli stic1000 Stylistic 1000 Technical Specifications Form Factor Small tablet size, pen-based computer Overall Dimensions 7.3" x 11.0" x 1.6" 185 mm x 279 mm x 40 mm Weight (with battery pack) 3.5 lbs. (1.6 Kg) Architecture IBM PC-AT compatible Microprocessor AMD Am486 DX4, 100 MHz 8 KB On-Chip Cache Integrated Math Coprocessor System Memory 8 MB DRAM standard Upgradeable to 12 MB, 16 MB, 24 MB BIOS 512 KB Flash ROM Expansion One ATA Slot (Mass Storage) Accepts Type III PCMCIA-ATA hard disk card or Type II/III solid-state flash card (SanDisk) Two PCMCIA 2.1 Slots Accepts two Type II PCMCIA cards or one Type III PCMCIA card Display DSTN Color LCD Backlit, 8" (197 mm) diagonal 0.25 mm dot pitch 640 x 480 VGA resolution, 256 colors Digitizer Electromagnetic Digitizing Tablet 1016 points/inch resolution 133 points/second sampling rate Interfaces Keyboard (PS/2 style) Parallel (ECP, Bi-directional) VGA (simultaneous with LCD) RS-232C Serial IrDA (or Rx/Tx Serial with Port Replicator) System Interface Port (for Port Replicator) External Floppy Disk Drive Mouse (only with Port Replicator) Power Lithium ion Battery Pack Autosensing 100-240V, 50/60 Hz AC Adapter Battery Life 3-6 Hours (application dependent) Power Management Save-To-Disk, Suspend and Standby Modes Supports Intel and Microsoft APM 1.1 Options Memory Expansion Modules (4 MB, 8 MB, 16 MB) PCMCIA ATA Hard Disk Cards (260 MB and 340 MB) PCMCIA Cards such as: Fax/Data Modem, LAN, SanDisk, Solid-state Flash, and SRAM Port Replicator External 3.5" Floppy Disk Drive Keyboard (low-power) Auto Adapter (12-24 VDC input) Dual Battery Charger Bar Code Wand Desk Stand Hand Straps Stylus Tether Screen Protector Slipcase Harsh Environment Case Keyboard Combo Case AC Adapter (spare) Lithium ion Battery Pack (spare) Stylus Kit (spare) Operating Systems Windows 95 with Pen Services 2.0 MS-DOS 6.2 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 with Pen Extensions 1.0 Environmentals Temperature 0° to 35° C (32° to 95° F) Operating -20° to 60° C (-4° to 140° F) Non-operating Humidity 20% to 85% RH (Non-condensing) Operating 8% to 95% RH (Non-condensing) Non-operating Altitude -200ft to 10,000ft (-61m to 3,047m) Operating 40,000ft (12,189m) Maximum Non-operating "If you're reading this, read it again." _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.tcwug.org tcwug-list at tcwug.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list