Quite a bit for you to read!

[canseco]

I found how they installed Linux (Red Hat 4.1) on that PC110 with a ZIP iomega drive.

http://pc110.ro.nu/
http://pc110.ro.nu/
The mailing list and documentation is still there via http, but the ftp is dead.

 

[kabaiakh]

a 33MHz 486 CPU

Type II / 1 Type III PCMCIA slot

a ZIP iomega drive

 

[Grench]

I still have an internal IDE ZIP drive and an internal SCSI JAZZ drive... I haven't mounted them in a box in a long long time though.

 

[sm0kew0n]

If anyone good with a solder iron wants to fix my pc110........

I'd like it back though.

 

[FBnil]

. This is because there was an intense cross pollination of ideas and an evolutionary process of killing and eating the young off bad ideas. The end result is truly from extensive pit fighting with knives collaboration.

Love the errata's... made me smile.
Always wanted a Jazz, too bad they were so expensive. I stuck to CD spindles instead... Like 30 for a harddisk backup...

watch the forum burn.

Well.. you know what Pyra means? Like: PyrAtechnics, and PyrAmaniac... yes... fire!

... waiting for someone to TL;DR...

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

Send it to me. I'll fix it for you. My address is:

9 Neverreturn Drive
Jupiter, Neverland, 999999

 

[FBnil]

See those cursor keys with the page-back and page-forward? They are the horrible. You are typing in a form, accidentally press back... and lose all your typed text... (this was for a ticketing system, where you did like, 20 minutes of investigative work, and pasted outputs and what not....)

 

[Eight Bit]

Thread depleted, time for a new one

 

[kabaiakh]

... waiting for someone to TL;DR...

Waiting for my Pyra ;=)

 

[erico]

For keyboard, we should do abnt2 with the likes of "ç" and "~"!
As for pre pandora...this one came with a mini cassete player built in.
I´m going to pretend the video cable is not as exposed as it seems though...

 

[levi]

Thread depleted, time for a new one

I like how, given this threads title, it has the most posts of almost any news thread created in the past year (only beaten by the 'preorders have started' thread which contains all of TrashyMG's preorder stats), albeit largely thanks to it going off topic pages ago now.

 

[erico]

Oh no, we are on topic...it says "Quite a bit for you to read!"
We just had to throw in a keyboard or two to make sense.

 

[AVahne]

Size comparison photo for anyone curious:

 

[ckblackm]

I didn't realize how much the keys on the PC110 resembled the HP-LX family.

 

[AVahne]

The device had an interesting collection of storage options.
*4MB (yes MB) of onboard flash.
*A 2 Type II / 1 Type III PCMCIA sot. PCMCIA cards are physically gigantic by today's standards. There are adapters to put CF and/or SD cards into PCMCIA slots, so, with the right adapters it could theoretically handle, very slowly, two 512GB SDXC cards.
*Pico/Mini Flash card slot. Good luck ever finding a card to fit this very short lived and unobtanium standard. It was about the physical size of a modern SD card. I understand that it was a bootable media.
*A docking station with a floppy drive in it.

Note that it predates USB existing. It predates WiFi. It predates Bluetooth.
It has a wired modem compatible with the Japanese phone networks of the time WITH voice capabilities to use it as a wired phone answering machine and speakerphone.

Stereo speakers.

Getting data on/off this thing today is pretty much by physical media or, if you have a docking station, potentially through the RS-232 serial port that only exists when docked.

Back in 1996 I had the opportunity to buy a brand new one for $1400 and passed on it. That is $2200 or so in today's money. I see this machine as the spiritual predecessor of the Pandora and now Pyra. Super compact, clamshell, LOTS of storage options for it's time.

The last time I saw one on Ebay was about 6 years ago. It went for right at $950. The floppy dock port replicator sold separately got $450.

I've no idea where that Pico/Mini Flash card slot is on my unit, so even if I ever did somehow managed to get one of those mythical cards somehow I wouldn't even know where to put it lol
It would seem that you forgot to mention that there's a Compact Flash slot on the right side though. I'm currently using a 4 GB Type II CF card as my boot drive with Windows 95. Gonna upgrade to 32 GB soon just to see if I can.

And about availability, these do pop up on eBay every now and then for varying prices and varying "configurations" (as in, whether it contains the ultra rare 16 MB RAM expansion and/or has had the CPU overclock mod done to it). I actually only bought mine last year with port replicator and floppy drive and with the RAM upgrade (no OC though, and I'm too chicken to do it myself, especially with how precious this thing is) for a little less than $600 USD after shipping. And that was after seeing two other listings that started at over $1k being sold, though those two listings had the Make An Offer option so I've no idea how much they really sold for. After I bought mine, another one popped up for around $500-600 (doesn't seem to have the RAM upgrade though, unless the seller forgot to mention it). So they're rare, but people ARE willing to give them up every so often.

 

[directive0]

WTF is a palmtop holy crap I think I'm in love.

I have never heard of that thing it is BEAUTIFUL!

 

[spud42]

PCMCIA was much more then just a CF or SD card adaptor. still got a working one...

 

[ClockworkCoder]

Zombies, Doom and palmtops. This thread is by far my favourite so far

Oh, and of course there was a brief mention of The Little Box of Wonders, aka Pyra.

Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk

 

[levi]

PCMCIA was much more then just a CF or SD card adaptor. still got a working one...

From wikipaedia:

The CompactFlash interface is a 50-pin subset of the 68-pin PCMCIA[14] connector. "It can be easily slipped into a passive 68-pin PCMCIA Type II to CF Type I adapter that fully meets PCMCIA electrical and mechanical interface specifications", according to compactflash.org.

That's true of first gen CF cards and first gen 16-bit PCMCIA cards; they're both based originally on the ATA/ISA spec used as the main card bus off the southbridge on PCs up to early Pentium (since superceded by variants of PCI).

 

[spud42]

PCMCIA had modems,faxes,wifi , CF adaptors and i had a Ethernet Network adaptor once...it had a thin flat connector to the PCMCIA card and a RJ45 at the other end.

and this wifi type