[rescue] Sun mod/hack: lunchbox style with Sun mobo?

[Mike Hebel]

Thus spake Lionel Peterson:
>>From: Mike Hebel <nimitz at nimitzbrood.com>
>>Date: 2007/01/25 Thu AM 09:58:38 CST
>>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>>Subject: Re: [rescue] Sun mod/hack: lunchbox style with Sun mobo?
>
>>Thus spake Francois Dion:
>>> As far as small motherboards, I seem to remember the V100 and V120
>>> have pretty small motherboards and fairly power efficient (heat is an
>>> important factor in a luggable setup). The V120 would be the only way
>>> to go for a monitor, unless you use a sunray "monitor" (17" flat
>>> screen w/sunray client). Actually, that would be kind of cool, now
>>> that I think of it...
>>
>>Huh. Here's an idea.  A Sunray inside a converted ELC.  Talk about an
>>upgrade! :-)
>
> Naw, a Core 2 Duo MB running Solaris 10 x64, with the glass tube
> extracted,
> and replaced with a suitable flat panel, to create room for a suitable
> RAID
> array of SATA drives... That would be an upgrade ;^)

You could even add a touch-screen overlay for completeness. ;-)

Mike Hebel
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