Re: [foxboro] "Industrial PC" recommendations

Hi Corey,

The standard motherboard part is going to be tough.  If you don't
absolutely have to have that, take a look at these
http://www.stealthcomputer.com/littlepc_625_fanless.htm

I'm not sure about the dual display capability of these either, although
it has the words in the spec sheet.

We have used these running XP for some applications.  The newer SSDs may
be better, but the ones we bought a year or so ago were slower than
death.  XP install times were so slow we would actually build the drives
using a regular hard drive, then ghost it over to the SSD.  Maybe the
new ones are better.

Thanks,
Gaylon Hicks
TVA - Browns Ferry

-----Original Message-----
From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Corey R Clingo
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 12:12 PM
To: 'foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [foxboro] "Industrial PC" recommendations

Hi list,
I'm looking for any recommendations for so-called "industrial PCs".  My 
requirements are as follows:


* Powerful enough to run XP decently (but see below)
* Fanless (and can thermally tolerate some dust build-up on the
exterior)
* Can drive two monitors at 1280x1024 each
* Open-source friendly (hardware not too cutting-edge, supported by
Linux 
or a *BSD)
* Ethernet and a couple USB ports
* Standard motherboard (microATX or miniITX) and expansion (PCI/PCI-E)

Nice to have:

* Can boot from and use CF card or hard disk (though I guess I could get
a 
SSD module if there's no CF slot)
* Keyboardless/mouseless boot ability
* Can take 2GB or more of RAM (I don't foresee needing more than 512MB
or 
so, but see Windows 7 comment below).


I plan to use these to run static/dedicated DMs/AMs and maybe alarm 
loggers.  I'm going to avoid Windows on the ones I can, but if I find I 
need XP for something, I want to be able to run it.  [I guess I really 
ought to be asking for hardware that will run Windows 7, but we'll be
with 
XP for another 4 or 5 years here at least.]


These will be in a (dusty) control room so I don;t need classified-area 
compatibility.


Any experiences/pointers will be appreciated.


Thanks,
Corey Clingo
BASF Corp.

 
 
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