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very minimalist hardware for TC?
herrMnnn:
Thanks folks, some excellent information there which has given me something to search on.
I got very excited about the Raspberry Pi when I discovered it some time ago, but no TC support is a hassle - after playing with TC for a few weeks it is such an elegant solution I don't really want to muck about with anything else. Also RPi has no real time clock and for a data logging device this could cause problems - it may not always have net access to sync time (eg power failure), and if a data call is logged with the wrong time it will completely mess up the data set (which is being graphed against time, downstream on the users pc).
Arduino is interesting but I really don't have the time to sort it out. I need an off the shelf device that runs TC .
Ebay searches found some Wyse thin clients so I'll see how I go in the auctions...
gutmensch:
I can confirm Wyse SX series is cheap and running with Tiny Core Linux - I once had TC 2.x running on this series and one could even use the flash device for storing stuff, but there were some hacks needed. If I wanted to shoot one at ebay I would probably also consider the IGEL clients since they IMO don't need that much hacking and they might be even cheaper.
curaga:
I have some Itona and Neoware clients myself :) All of them were quite standard, could boot from USB and the flash disk was attached via IDE.
herrMnnn:
I picked up a HP T5700 from ebay for less than $50 delivered. There were cheaper options but I couldn't be bothered with the auction process. I'm kicking myself for missing out on a lot of 4 Wyse S50 units which went for $6 plus postage for the lot.....
Anyway, once I worked out what I was doing, I installed and ran TinyCore from the internal flash drive without a problem. I booted it into Windows XP embedded first just to make sure the hardware was ok before I formatted the drive, and as expected TC is much faster :)
I chose the HP as it reportedly has lower power consumption than some of the others around (9-14W), and since I won't be running much in the final configuration processor speed etc is largely irrelevant. The parkytowers site referenced above was a huge help.
cast-fish:
http://www.ewayco.com/100-low-cost-pc-products-low-cost-systems-embedded-systems-servers-lcd-pc-panel-pc.html
here is good at $99
That is a boxed new Linux thin client ready to go....
V.
TQ mini = model
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