You could go for the new NLX form factor mother boards. They're cheap, have a small footprint and very low power consumption. These boards use a small riser to add PCI and IDE interface and usualy have onboard network , audio and video cards and can handle anything from celerons to PIII's.
A picture of standard NLX mother board..(if attachements are allowed on this list?)
This might not be the cheap alternative you had in mind, but it's still
cool to run STN from a book sized Pentium III.
Asus has a nice one http://www.asus.com/Products/Motherboard/Pentiumpro/Mes-n/index.html
The best thing is that NLX motherboards fit into a lot of standard
external SCSI bays, with a little tinkering you could probably fit one
in a cheap SCSI housing which already has the power build in or you could
buy the rather expensive NLX boxes.
There are also a lot of company that build solid state 486-based computer
the size of a pocket book, one of our sister companies is developing one
that can be outfitted with literaly anything you want. Up to 4GB of solid
state IDE for example. But you could go for the cheap version with 2 PCI
slot,4 serial ports, linux kernel on a chip and a notebook floppy drive.
Hope this helps,
Ilan Steemers
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I've managed to get STN to work on a Compaq 466/M, which is a power hog and
fairly large, loud and hot (even with the hard drive removed). I've not
managed to get it to boot with the innards moved to a Dell Optiplex 466, a
lower profile and power consumption machine.My only hesitancy in committing to an STN setup vs. spending for a complete
hardware solution using one of the new ADSL routers coming out, is the
efficiency of the setup: I need only one box and power supply for an ADSL
router/hub setup, vs. three for an STN setup (PC + ADSL Modem + Hub).Does anyone have pointers for using STN with a "motherboard on a chip"
designs or at least those that don't come with a noisy, hungry and hot
power supply? Looking at the prices for Pentium motherboards, it would seem
there should be a software/hardware STN solution to fit in a small and
economical box?Veljko Roskar
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