I have been battling with 850 and 860 notebooks and I really
bummed out. Accordingly, I have decided to make my own. My background includes 30 years of hard core electronics and switching power supplies, packaging, etc etc etc.
My first project will be stuffing a 43p-140 into my own custon aluminum case with surplus parts like thinkpad keyboard, room for 3 thinkpad batteries, cd, floppy, and 60 gig of internal scsi using a scsi-ide converter and the latest notebook 2.5 inch ide/ata5 drive. This will be capable of AIX 5, but not be a 64 bit processor. However, it will enable the use of a 332 risc processor, and will pretty much use standard parts from surplus used equipment.
It will have an 18 inch tft screen on a flip-up hinge, and work and look just like a regular notebook. I will have to design and build custon cables in order to stuff all this in the box. The final size is tbd, and I guess the weight
will not exceed 15 lbs with 3 batteries (standard thinkpad kind, standard charger system, etc. The final unit will fit in a standard briefcase. This will make life a lot easier than having to lug a box, keyboard, mouse, screen
(even tft), all the cables, find a place to spread it out, crawl on the floor hooking things up, and so so, just to do a sales presentation, or show the toolmaker what a cad designed part looks like. I will design and build a switcher power supply which will be very efficient, and reliable. My past work in power supplies achieved a packaging power density of over 300 watts per cubic inch
for a large system (i megawatt), and in excess of 100 watts per cubic inch for aircraft applications (Boeing).
When I am done with that, I will move up the food chain and do a 150 custon notebook.
It occurs to me that there may be others out there who would have a use for this kind of setup, and if you are interested, my e-mail is tkasmer@yahoo.com enjoy
bummed out. Accordingly, I have decided to make my own. My background includes 30 years of hard core electronics and switching power supplies, packaging, etc etc etc.
My first project will be stuffing a 43p-140 into my own custon aluminum case with surplus parts like thinkpad keyboard, room for 3 thinkpad batteries, cd, floppy, and 60 gig of internal scsi using a scsi-ide converter and the latest notebook 2.5 inch ide/ata5 drive. This will be capable of AIX 5, but not be a 64 bit processor. However, it will enable the use of a 332 risc processor, and will pretty much use standard parts from surplus used equipment.
It will have an 18 inch tft screen on a flip-up hinge, and work and look just like a regular notebook. I will have to design and build custon cables in order to stuff all this in the box. The final size is tbd, and I guess the weight
will not exceed 15 lbs with 3 batteries (standard thinkpad kind, standard charger system, etc. The final unit will fit in a standard briefcase. This will make life a lot easier than having to lug a box, keyboard, mouse, screen
(even tft), all the cables, find a place to spread it out, crawl on the floor hooking things up, and so so, just to do a sales presentation, or show the toolmaker what a cad designed part looks like. I will design and build a switcher power supply which will be very efficient, and reliable. My past work in power supplies achieved a packaging power density of over 300 watts per cubic inch
for a large system (i megawatt), and in excess of 100 watts per cubic inch for aircraft applications (Boeing).
When I am done with that, I will move up the food chain and do a 150 custon notebook.
It occurs to me that there may be others out there who would have a use for this kind of setup, and if you are interested, my e-mail is tkasmer@yahoo.com enjoy
