[geeks] RE: In the kitchen, Barefoot and *wireless*...

[Ken Hansen]

You want an Axil SS/5 "clone" w/72 Pin memory slots, TGX/TGX+ framebuffer, and either a 70 or 85 MHz CPU. Look for models 220 or 245. The cases are slightly larger than a "lunchbox" system (LX/IPX), and if you don't need the floppy, they come with a dual-drive SCSI cable installed.

Non-x86 means running anything other than the supplied software/OS will be a serious challenge, IMHO. 

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua D. Boyd [mailto:jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu]
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 9:45 AM
To: 'geeks at sunhelp.org'
Subject: Re: [geeks] RE: In the kitchen, Barefoot and *wireless*...


non-x86 is supposed to be a bad feature?

When the time comes, I'll take whatever seems reasonable.  Personally, my
ultimate dream is a touch panel mounted in a cabinet door with some other
bottons below, an IR port (for talking to palm pilots), a barcode scanner
(for inventory), a speaker (for voice mail) and a wireless keyboard (when
touching the screen isn't enough).  

I also dream of getting a lunchbox sun with 16bit/44khz/stereo out and
placing it in the living room as an MP3 playing box (are the powerUP
chips up to the job?  Otherwise, there are some SS5 upgrades that could
do it, but I don't know what quality their sound is, nor how hard it is
to make proprietary sbus cards). It would have an IR port for control via
palm pilots and notebooks, rather than having to have a console set up.

Actually, perhaps a more powerfull machine and a good way to add more
sound outs would be a good idea, so that it can also send a seperate audio
stream to the kitchen.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:

> Laptops that compare to network appliances are very inexpensive (three years old).

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