OK, I am still thinking about them too.<br><br>I forgot I have a pcmcia memory SD card reader and some old cards, if the card support is in the kernel they work with linux, might have to boot off a floppy though. Also have possibly have one set of pen batteries (if they fit).<br>
<br>I may go looking for a semi-modern boot floppy image (recent kernel). Although need something trimmed down, also want pcmcia built in (not module) and a rescue shell. We have these for mac 2.6.18, maybe 2.6.22, although they have been approaching the limit.<br>
<br>Even if building a custom system for tablet-pen support, one needs a generic starting point for native build.<br><br>Googling just now I found -<br><br>Picture, note date of mfg is 1992 and cpu is 486:<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Concerto">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Concerto</a><br>
More <br><a href="http://hawky.net/laptop.html">http://hawky.net/laptop.html</a><br>(amazing its browsing the ebay ad in the ebay ad = recursive)<br><a href="http://www.pistolerapost2.com/viewing/concerto1.html">http://www.pistolerapost2.com/viewing/concerto1.html</a><br>
<br>The project of getting the pen to work for this particular model, for 2.6.20 kernel (broken):<br><a href="http://code.google.com/p/cpqpen2/">http://code.google.com/p/cpqpen2/</a><br>older driver (works?) for 2.0 kernel (scroll down the page)<br>
<a href="http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer/index_old.html#linux">http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer/index_old.html#linux</a><br><br>Could it become a retro cult classic ?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Corey McGuire <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:coreyfro@coreyfro.com">coreyfro@coreyfro.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Yeah, they work alright. I'll have to dust off my SuSE 6.3 discs, and dig up my PCMCIA CD-ROM and see if I can reunite the two.<div>
<div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Corey McGuire <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:coreyfro@coreyfro.com" target="_blank">coreyfro@coreyfro.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex"><ul><li>The batteries are in a separate bag,. but they are there.</li><li>I believe there are batteries for all of them.</li>
<li>They may not operate until a battery is install and until it receives a small amount of charge. I remember this to be an annoyance when they were new. </li>
<li>They use high quality NIMH batteries that perform very well considering they are 20 years old.</li><li>The pens require coin cell batteries and they are, all of them, dead.</li><li>I have a box on my shelf of units with intact hinges, paired with their pens, batteries, and keyboards. I believe there are many working power supplies in said box.</li>
<li>They use 19v DC which is common for laptop PSU's.</li><li>The hinges are indeed broken on many of them, but being they are tablet dos/win3.11/win95 machines, it is not a remote portability that they'd serve well as wall terminals for various functions.</li>
<li>They run X Windows.</li><li>There is a linux pen driver for them.</li><li>They love PATA to Compact Flash Adapters, which makes them 100% solid state</li><li>I have a working win 3.11 image for them</li><li>They are groovy</li>
</ul><div><div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Brian Morris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cymraegish@gmail.com" target="_blank">cymraegish@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">
There's only one power supply and it appears to not work (unless I picked the two tablets that were broken to try). Also many of them the plastic cases are busted, especially around the hinge pivots that causes them to fall apart. also many have open battery compartments with no covers.<br>
<br>Maybe a few that are in better shape could stick around a while ?<div><div></div><div><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Corey McGuire <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:coreyfro@coreyfro.com" target="_blank">coreyfro@coreyfro.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">All but 2 of them are in 100% working order. Take a closer look. They are donations. If they are in the way, chuck them.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Rubin Abdi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rubin@starset.net" target="_blank">rubin@starset.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><div>There's about a dozen of these things...<br>
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<a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=compaq+concerto" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/search?q=compaq+concerto</a><br>
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Next to POLE 3. They're in various states of disassemble and<br>
destruction. I haven't found one that looks to be in working order.<br>
Unless I get poked, they're going into the ewaste pile.<br>
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Rubin Abdi<br>
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