-=> KURT WEISKE wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 -=> WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to JEAN PARROT <=-

 WC> I got mine.
 WC> Itronix 6250s, two of them.

 JP>  Not a ball of fire but it is a good one to have U'u on. They were at
 JP> $18,000 to the Army in single cost. Intel 100 MHz is fine but will not
 JP> leave any new machine in the dust.

 WC> 200 Mhz Pentium.


 KW> Sounds like a great little box. 

It's pretty neat in several areas of appeal.
Novelty, ruggedness and the challenge of making them truly useful.

To this end I aim to as a bit of a hardware hacker to see if I can't upgrade
the side lit ( presumed for now) display by opening up and replacing 
( again presumed) side lit fluorescents with pulse width modulated high current
high brightness white LEDS.

 KW> There are a couple of Linux distros
 KW> that should run fine on it. I ran Windows 2000 in 80 MB of RAM on an
 KW> old P5 Pentium and it worked OK.


These have 60 Meg of RAM.
Theoretically Slack 13.1 base system would fly but  I aim to dual boot Windows
with Damn Small Linux.

The vendor alluded to the fact his supplier may have yet more of them.
Heres hoping.

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