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Article #301Re: SMALLEST laptop/palmtop to buy for Linux?
From: Charlie Stross
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:00
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On 21 Mar 1998 22:39:53 -0500, Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com> wrote: >cbbrowne@news.hex.net (Christopher Browne) writes: > >> A rather more expensive option would be to look at something like the >> Toshiba Libretto. It has enough memory and disk space that it can >> realistically run a "fullscale" x86 Linux, and could still fit in a coat >> pocket. > >Alan Cox is running Linux on an IBM machine the size of a Libretto: http://toy.cabi.net The smallest Linux box I ever saw was built about a year and a half ago by an acquaintance. He used one of the pcmcia-sized 486-on-a-card boards, hooked up to a 2.5" hard disk, some cannibalized mobile phone batteries, an LCD controller, and a Private Eye head-up display glued to a pair of hacked lab goggles. For input he used one of those silly marketroid-oriented mouse-thingies with virtually an entire keyboard mounted on it as buttons; he also had a Private Eye velcro'd to the top of this, and with a mobile phone in the Boston area he was able to zap images off the street and onto his web site wherever he went. The central guts, i/o gadgetry and spare batteries excluded, fitted in a bum bag with room to spare for a wallet. On the other hand, he worked at the MIT Media Lab, and half his kit's casing had been rendered on a 3D printer ... -- Charlie
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,a8b5b6802f4ccf9b X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 102b32,a8b5b6802f4ccf9b X-Google-Attributes: gid102b32,public X-Google-Thread: f9b51,a8b5b6802f4ccf9b X-Google-Attributes: gidf9b51,public X-Google-Thread: 100b1f,a8b5b6802f4ccf9b X-Google-Attributes: gid100b1f,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,a8b5b6802f4ccf9b X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,a8b5b6802f4ccf9b X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: charlie@antipope.org (Charlie Stross) Subject: Re: SMALLEST laptop/palmtop to buy for Linux? Date: 1998/03/23 Message-ID: <slrn6hcqtm.lb.charlie@cs.ed.datacash.com> X-Deja-AN: 337751357 References: <34ED4233.3507994D@ThePla.net> <888093639@sheol.org> <mbk.888475567@octarine> <6d3d00$jfo$1@gidora.zeta.org.au> <6d7g84$28a@kjahds.kjahds.com> <34f90bcf.23910830@news.wco.com> <6dfm45$2ei$1@news.dknet.dk> <6eu5ue$pe@mira.fluff.org> <Eq52oG.F8J@world.std.com> <6evjhd$bua$6@blue.hex.net> <m2zpijxuk6.fsf@desk.crynwr.com> Reply-To: charlie @ nospam . antipope . org X-NNTP-Posting-Host: demsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.129.186] Organization: Chateau Antipope retirement home for senescent computers Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,aus.computers.linux