Specifications
Variants on these instructions can make anything from a low end 80386
system to a high end '586. In general, the cost will be less than a
laptop and the battery life will be 3-5X higher.
Specifications for default Lizzy
- 100 Mhz 486 DX4 processor (~50 Linux Bogomips)
- 16M RAM
- 2 serial, 1 parallel port
- flash memory capable
- 2 IDE disk capability
- 1.35GB 2.5" Toshiba hard disk
- clock battery backup
- Private Eye heads up display (red monochrome 720x280, but CRISP)
- ~10 hour battery life
The machine described in the instructions is conservative and is
designed primarily for robustness. For example, the author reads his
e-mail exclusively from his wearable. However, for the more brave
of heart or those making experimental systems, see below.
A preview of a maximum upgraded system
- 150 Mhz Pentium 32-128?M RAM (next month...we'll see)
- 6G of hard disk(s) (2 2.5" 3G Toshiba hard disks available now)
- 3 camera video digitizer with 56001 co-processor (the Adjeco
digitizer listed in the PC/104 section)
- CD quality sound/MIDI (Crystal-MM sound board, see PC/104 section)
- 56Kbps wireless Internet connection (CDMA digital cellular
service...call your local rep)
- Color VGA+ resolution display (this summer maybe? See the display section)
Needlesstosay, only certain combinations have been tested at this
point (sound/video/disk), but as upgrades happen, we'll dump info to
this page.
Copyright 1997, Thad Starner and MIT
Warrantee (or lack thereof)
Last modified: Thu Apr 3 18:40:31 EST 1997