[ale] small hardware platforms

[johnmills at speakeasy.net (John Mills)]

David -

Have you looked at: [http://www.embeddedarm.com/index.php]?

We used their ARM TS-7200 at EMS. It ran the Cirrus/Technologic port of 
Linux, but there are other choices. We didn't use any HDD but the current 
models support SATA II. (I did use ethernet-NFS and USB storage.) They 
were used to manage and monitor cell-phone repeaters, boxed and installed 
in attics, outdoors, etc. with little or no cooling. Naturally you can 
hook most PC-104 expansions onto it. We had done a data interface with a 
Sierra cell-Phone modem. ("Antenna, phone home!")

  - John

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, David Hamm wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For a while now I've been producting a product using Kuro Boxes.  Kuro Boxes
> can bee seen here http://www.revogear.com and http://www.kurobox.com.  They
> have either a 266mghz Motorola Power PC or a 400mghz ARM processor and use a
> standard IDE or SATA HD with 128 megs of ram.
>
> Does anyone know of a similar platform?  There are some fanless PCs out there
> but they use a laptop HD which limits the disk size and I'm concerned the
> heat will cause early disk failure.
>
> Thanks.