On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, David J Taylor wrote:
"Richard B. Gilbert" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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I think that that the closest you can come "off the shelf" would be a
Laptop. You are not likely to find one in that price range.
I'm not happy about leaving a laptop on 24 hours a day, in any case.
We do it routinely. Laptops are very commonly used to control
instruments and log data on oceanographic vessels. One benefit
is that they are immume to the usual power glitches.
There is already an ample supply of netbooks with broken screens.
<http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee> gives the status of freeBSD on the
EeePC. What I'm not sure about is the long-term supply of replacement
batteries.
PHK has created GPS clocks using a "single board computer" and a GPS
receiver. I don't know what it cost him. See:
http://phk.freebsd.dk/soekris/pps/
Thanks for your pointer, Richard. He mentions US $220. I don't suppose he'd
want to ship a pre-configured unit, though. It's certainly close.
Cheers,
David
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