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Mr. Sandman · 01-03-2003, 10:51 AM

On my bench, for a test, I booted up a stripped down windows 98se off a solid state pen drive....this means that it is possible to actually run a cheap on-board computer in the center console without the fear of a hard disk crash. (pen drives have no moving parts and can take a beating ...2000 g's)
To make it really practical, I need to upgrade my test set up to a pen drive that is USB 2.0 to get faster access.

with an off the shelf lcd 15-17" flat screen monitor, water proof track balls and keyboards along with this solid state drive you *should* be able to build a robust on-board machine to do full blown Nav and under water charting as well as numerous other cool things.
I hope to build a test machine this summer and take it for a pounding to see if it holds up.

01-03-2003, 10:51 AM	#1
Mr. Sandman Registered User iTrader: (0) Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 7,649	center console computing... On my bench, for a test, I booted up a stripped down windows 98se off a solid state pen drive....this means that it is possible to actually run a cheap on-board computer in the center console without the fear of a hard disk crash. (pen drives have no moving parts and can take a beating ...2000 g's) To make it really practical, I need to upgrade my test set up to a pen drive that is USB 2.0 to get faster access. with an off the shelf lcd 15-17" flat screen monitor, water proof track balls and keyboards along with this solid state drive you should be able to build a robust on-board machine to do full blown Nav and under water charting as well as numerous other cool things. I hope to build a test machine this summer and take it for a pounding to see if it holds up.