[htaprs] Re: Any fun projects for the winter?

[Dale Blanchard]

Arte Booten wrote:

> 
>      Well, not handheld,  but self-contained.   I have one  of the old  
> Citadel
> touch-screen industrial computers (a 486-25)  which now contains an 
> HTX-202 and
> an  AEA PCB-88  (the PC-card version of their PK-88 TNC).   The computer 
> has an
> IDE header,  which will allow an SD card with card>IDE adapter to be 
> installed.
> There is still plenty of room for an  OEM GPS card - and maybe even a 3 
> or 4 Ah
> gel-cell for power outages.
> 
>      When these computers became available, Bob Bruninga WB4APR wrote a 
> special
> version of APRSDos for them called APRStouch.   Please note that these 
> machines
> are rare birds,  especially the 486's.   Occasionally, you'll find one 
> on Ebay,
> but bear in mind that they were all custom-programmed by  the 
> manufacturer  for
> the customer ... if you don't modify them to use and boot from the  SD  
> card it
> will boot from the factory-programmed  EEPROM  unless you have the 
> equipment to
> burn a new 
> one.                                                              73
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I have a citadel, but I do not know eneough about DOS to make it work 
properly. It was aparently used with a wireless card,which is not in it.
I did add one memory stick,because I had one.
I have pc card holders.
I did not know there was a pc card version of PK-88.