They have this at Fry's right now.. check it out. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David P. Schwartz" To: "plug" Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 3:51 AM Subject: any hardware geeks interested in this? > Fry's got in a cool new barebones box in mid-December called the > SpaceShuttle. Here's a link to a nice review of it: > > http://www.hothardware.com/hh_files/Motherboards/shuttle_sv24.shtml > > It's from a company Shuttle Technologies in Taiwan, and it uses a > motherboard available from from them called the FV24. The barebones box is > around $230 wholesale, and the motherboard is about $100. > > I'm thinking ... you could slice the top half of the box off of the > enclosure and still have room for a 3.5" or notebook drive and a second NIC. > > Imagine .... a 1GHz P-III, 1/2-GB RAM, 40GB HDD, 2 NICs, audio, video, 2 > firewire & 4 USB ports, all in a box the size of a 2" thick book ... for > under $300... not bad for something like a "home server appliance", eh? > (The ones on the market today are 200MHz Z8 clones.) > > -David > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss