Juey Chong Ong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 06:34 PM, Peter Alling wrote: > >> I've never seen a ruggedized Mac, > >http://online.sfsu.edu/~hl/c.Tempest.Mac.html >http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,57961,00.html >http://digitaltigers.com/flyingtiger.shtml >http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,51670,00.html
Cool stuff, but none of them is a ruggedized Mac. The third (Flying Tiger) is the only ruggedized one, and it runs a Pentium IV, although they say it can be set up to run the Mac O.S. The second one is apparently a standard Mac that's being used because the standard issue ruggedized laptops aren't powerful enough (no surprise to me - all the military laptops I've seen use far from cutting edge technology. They tend to keep a generation behind and are willing to sacrifice a lot of performance for survivability.) I think the first and fourth ones on the above list are the most interesting. Tempest technology is kinda spooky but very cool. Some of the equipment we built at my former place of employment used tempest certified connectors and such. Very cloak-and-dagger! -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
