Jim Brewer wrote:

Paul
This is a small pc, just pull power needed from a/c.  Add a flat panel
screen and go.

MS-6215 Book PC
Intel Celeron 1.0 GHz (100 MHz FSB)
20.0 GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive
128 MB PC-133 SDRAM
56X CD-ROM Drive
1.44 MB Floppy Drive

*system comes with:
4 USB Ports (2 in front, 2 in rear)
2 Firewire ports
S-Video & Composite Video Out
2 Full Size PCI Slots
...in a case the size of a phonebook

Jim Brewer

Yep I have seen those things. I nearly bought one until I found
out they used a non-standard 3.5 inch floppy drive. I was worried about 
it going out and having to get a replacement. I think it uses a notebook
mother board. Never the less you could pull the power supply and use 
a DC to DC converter and it would probably make a fairly decent 
moving map computer to run off the shelf PC moving map software 
like Flight Soft and Free Flight. A bit heavy with its steel case however.
I assume there are some serial ports as well.

The thing about PCs is they are real easy to assemble from a selection 
of standard and interchangeable parts. You can get books on the subject of
how to assemble them from off the shelf parts.

Paul Lamar
 
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