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

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Mike Hebel <nimitz at nimitzbrood.com>
>Date: 2007/01/25 Thu PM 02:30:37 CST
>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [rescue] Sun mod/hack: lunchbox style with Sun mobo?

>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. ;-)

Think "Wii Mouse", and a "Dance, Dance Revolution" mat for text entry ;^)

A full-body user interface ;^)

Lionel