Phil’s Computer Lab has covered lots of DOS compatible Thin Clients. I personally have 5 fanless HP t5745. Atom N280 (single core, dual thread) CPUs, mine have 1GB-4GB RAM, 2GB IDE DOM, 10/100/1000 Ethernet by Broadcom, serial port, PS/2 ports, Intel GL40 VGA & DisplayPort, will USB boot FreeDOS and others. Fairly small, about the size of a DVD-ROM drive. I even bought the expansion bays to allow you to fit a PCI or PCI-E card (also adds a quiet fan) and a parallel port. Still sell on eBay for $25.
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5T8bmLxd_T3xTjY3fpBdT3zpZfHPtbDJ https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/hp/t5740/ On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 3:05 PM Eric Auer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Tom, > > >> ...the board format does not matter much. > >> It's the CPU model/generation that matters. > > > > NOT. AT. ALL. > > > > each Intel/AMD CPU produced the last 20 years is able > > to execute the same way that the previous versions did. > > The point is that everything which is remotely > similar to a Raspberry Pi uses ARM style CPU, > but the SIZE and COST of Raspberry Pi (Thomas > has mentioned Asus Tinker Board as example) are > obviously tempting. It would be nice to have a > non-ARM, x86 compatible hardware in that range. > > So I would like to hear whether single board > computers in similar size and price (not PC/104 > price level) with x86 compatible CPU exist and > which of them can be recommended by people here. > > Of course we can always buy x86 Mini-ITX with > even a single normal size PCIe or PCI slot and > many good old interfaces, but that would be a > LOT larger than Raspberry style. With Nano- or > Pico-ITX, even SATA becomes less common. Might > not be a problem if the on-board M.2 or mSATA > slot of other boards is what you want, but if > you want to recycle existing 2.5 inch drives, > SATA would be nice. I could name a number of > other interfaces, but I am mainly interested > to hear what YOU people have been using in the > category of tiny, affordable x86 computers :-) > > Cheers, Eric > > PS: While Thomas does not want sound, of course > I am also interested about variants with sound, > maybe even ISA Sound Blaster compatible sound. > > > Ah, thanks, Frank. I don’t need sound, I actually don’t WANT sound > > (and no fans) > > > > Th. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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