Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] lunchbox computer

At 04:50 PM 12/3/2001 -0500, Carlos Guillermo wrote:

>Does anyone know of an inexpensive source for those "lunchbox"
>style computers, the ones that have a small LCD, a detachable

I got my lunchbox at a yard sale (spur of the moment buy) for $50. It has
a 640x480 plasma display and had a dead 386 motherboard and tiny hard
drive. It is a "Compact PC-III".

The good news is, that it takes a standard AT-size motherboard, and I
retrofitted it with a 486-66 with PCI video card and a larger hard drive
(200MB, 500MB? I forget right now). I got Windows95 running on it just as
an exercise, but it's now running DR-DOS. It was to be my CNC controller,
but is too slow. I had tried a faster Pentium motherboard in it briefly,
but there was some problem with the video card (the video needs to go out
the VESA connector and through a little interface board), but then I got
the i-opener (200 MHz Winchip) that is running CNC Pro well, so the
lunchbox is in my closet.

As someone else said, they are on eBay most of the time. If you find one,
I think you can be confident you can upgrade it. OTOH, if you might be
interested in mine email me offlist.

Best regards,

Randy

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