Steve Shockley wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On the other hand, the stash of Compaq iPaqs I came across recently have >> built-in sound, a very capable built-in speaker, nearly silent in >> operation and are easy for Joe Average to understand. We've got enough >> we could even ship out a spare with the system for spare parts. > > Is that one of the handheld Windows Mobile devices, or one of the "thin > client" things they used to sell?
Apparently, Compaq likes to (surprise) reuse product names. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pb22/iPAQ/10638_na.html It's a full i386 computer, though free of expansion slots or 5.25" drive bays. It has provisions for a laptop-style CDROM drive (only two of the 20 machines had that), no floppy, unless you got one for the CDROM bay. i810 chipset. Celeron 500MHz, though apparently other things can go in them. Other than the bottom, not a flat surface on them, which makes them very difficult to handle, store, stack or relocate. In fact, while they are small and light enough that I should be able to carry probably four or five at a time, the awkward shape pretty well limits it to two at a time, as there is just nothing to hold onto (and even picking the two up is a challenge). However, the form is not at all bad for our project. HW-wise, it's very solid OpenBSD-compatible stuff, and seems to work well. It's got classic annoying Compaq quirks (it wants a keyboard), but they are able to be worked around. Interesting test (even more off-topic than the rest, but...) With JUST the flash drive, idle OpenBSD power draw was about 21W. With added HD, idle OpenBSD power draw was about 26W With bc soaking all available processor time, power was up to 44W. (and you thought those distributed computing projects were "free"...) (my Wattmeter reads only to the nearest 1W, so all those figures are +/-1W on top of whatever the accuracy of the thing is.) (the hard disk is installed on this thing so I can start imaging and making additional flash cards on my dev system, not for production.) Nick. OpenBSD 4.2-current (GENERIC) #607: Tue Dec 18 18:36:52 MST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel Celeron ("GenuineIntel" 686-class, 128KB L2 cache) 499 MHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR real mem = 132739072 (126MB) avail mem = 120451072 (114MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 02/05/99, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xeca00, SMBIOS rev. 2.3 @ 0xfbfff (36 entries) bios0: vendor Compaq version "686J5 v2.05" date 07/07/2000 bios0: Compaq iPaq acpi0 at bios0: rev 0 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP SSDT SSDT SSDT DBGP SSDT acpi0: wakeup devices HUB_(S4) USB0(S1) PCI0(S4) SBTN(S4) acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 1 (HUB_) acpibtn0 at acpi0: SBTN bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000 0xc8000/0x1800 0xe0000/0x10000! cpu0 at mainbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82810E" rev 0x03 agp0 at pchb0: aperture at 0x44000000, size 0x4000000 vga1 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82810E Graphics" rev 0x03 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) ppb0 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801AA Hub-to-PCI" rev 0x02 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 fxp0 at pci1 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 8255x" rev 0x08, i82559: irq 5, address 00:d0:b7:c7:f7:de inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82555 10/100 PHY, rev. 4 ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801AA LPC" rev 0x02 pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 82801AA IDE" rev 0x02: DMA, channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <CF 1GB> wd0: 1-sector PIO, LBA, 967MB, 1980720 sectors wd1 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 1: <ST38411A> wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 8063MB, 16514064 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 wd1(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4 pciide0: channel 1 disabled (no drives) uhci0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 82801AA USB" rev 0x02: irq 5 auich0 at pci0 dev 31 function 5 "Intel 82801AA AC97" rev 0x02: irq 10, ICH AC97 ac97: codec id 0x41445348 (Analog Devices AD1881A) ac97: codec features headphone, Analog Devices Phat Stereo audio0 at auich0 isa0 at ichpcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 biomask f9fd netmask f9fd ttymask fbff mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support uhub1 at uhub0 port 2 "Texas Instruments TUSB2046 hub" rev 1.10/1.25 addr 2 uhidev0 at uhub1 port 3 configuration 1 interface 0 "Sun Microsystems Type 6 Keyboard" rev 1.10/2.00 addr 3 uhidev0: iclass 3/1 ukbd0 at uhidev0: 8 modifier keys, 6 key codes, layout 33 wskbd1 at ukbd0 mux 1 wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0 softraid0 at root root on wd1a swap on wd1b dump on wd1b