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Re: Ideas for and old laptop
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- Subject: Re: Ideas for and old laptop
- From: William Underwood <wllmundrwd@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:36:12 -0700 (PDT)
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>From: Tim Hart <codermsu@gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Ideas for and old laptop
>recipes or other kitchen related crap. Oh, and how to boot off usb with this
>older laptop. It might not even be possible, from what I can tell. Can I load
>enough OS into ram to VNC from the hdd and then disable the hdd?
Might I suggest an SD to 44pin IDE converter? $10 for that, $10 for an SD card
of about 4GB size, more than enough room to install and boot a VNC client.
http://computers.shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=sd+ide+44&_sacat=58058&_sop=1&LH_Price=..50%40c&_dmd=1&_odkw=sd+ide&_osacat=58058&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313
And maybe a touchscreen kit?
http://cgi.ebay.com/SMART-TOUCH-SCREEN-PANEL-KIT-15-Display-POS-System-/260760131853?pt=UK_Computing_ComputerComponents_Monitors&hash=item3cb683d90d
Along with reworking the laptop case so that it's wall-mountable?
http://www.instructables.com/community/Digital-Picture-Frame-How-to-Building-Guide/
Have fun...!
William
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William Underwood
wllmundrwd@yahoo.com
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