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Re: Embedded System Recommendations



2010/7/29 Hal Vaughan <hal@halblog.com>:
>
> On Jul 28, 2010, at 4:58 PM, Volkan YAZICI wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Hal Vaughan <hal@halblog.com> writes:
>>> I'm working with something that will go in people's offices. I was
>>> seriously considering using some Soekris boxes (http://soekris.com).
>>> The problem is the upper limit of RAM is 512 MB. I'd like to get
>>> something a little faster than their systems and with more memory, but
>>> the memory would take priority.
>>
>> Did you check EPIA Mini-ITX boards?
>
> My big issue with those (and some others) is that if I want to block off video and keyboard ports (which, these days, means USB, too), I have to physically alter the case or the board or do something like use glue to seal the connector.  I want to make this as much "appliance like" as possible so there's no temptation to think of it like a computer or to try to log in or connect to it normally.
>
> The Soekris boxes have a serial port for communications and, other than something like ssh, that's it for logging in.
>
> But thanks for the suggestion!

how about some box from: http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=40

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Eero


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