[SunRescue] Thought on SPARC MP3 player.

[Ken Caruso]

It would be cool if you could put a audio card in one of those under $1000
1u netra boxes.


Ken

On Sat, 12 May 2001, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:

> Wouldn't those new space hardened SPARCs be more appropriate, especially
> since this is a sunhelp list?  It certainly would get you more geek
> points.
> 
> --
> Joshua Boyd
> 
> On Fri, 11 May 2001, David Michaud wrote:
> 
> > Along thses lines, I have been thinking about building a car mp3 player
> > using an all-in-one, all-on-board socket7 (ie, Pentium class)
> > motherboard and placing it in a 1U rack enclosure with a custom power
> > supply (13.8v car supply/120v autoswitching for portability, etc) and
> > control electronics for a remote serially controlled LCD and keypad for
> > operational functions, which would be mounted somewhere on the
> > dashboard... a 4line x 20char backlit LCD for ex. The hardware end, to
> > me, is the simple part... simple standalone UART to interface the LCD
> > and keypad decoder to serial line to the system, but the software end
> > I'm not sure about... I would need some custom software to do X and Y
> > and Z when X, Y, and Z are pressed/performed/selected up on the keypad,
> > etc etc... Anyone have any ideas on this?
> > 
> > 
> > -Dave
> > 
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