Linux notetaker

[Doug]

Most of the small "book PC" type products, and the embedded
boards, have PS/2 keyboard/mouse ports. So you can use a
normal keyboard, or you can use smaller qwerty, half qwerty,
or a chording keyboard. I use all of these depending on the
situation. For the products that don't have PS/2, they can
usually be used with USB equivalents, provided it has a
host USB port (most PDAs don't have this, they have device
USB port only (ie the PDA acts as a USB device not master).
Some keyboard alternatives:

http://home.earthlink.net/~wearable/hardware/#Input

 > little palmtops like the Sharp xoros come with
 > keyboard or they use any software based tuch screen
 > staff?

Do you mean sharp zaurus? Search on xoros doesn't
find me a PDA ... for most PDAs there are serial
keyboard add-on products that clip onto the PC
docking port/cradle interface. For example cirque
makes a small keyboard that will work with palm,
handspring, etc. There seems to be lots of PDA
keyboards on the market today. I personally think
they should just implement PS/2 ...

   -- Doug


Nektarios wrote:
 > Sorry for the stupid question, but what kind of keyboard
 > could someone use for such an implementation?


Do those


>Regards.
>Nektarios.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On
>Behalf Of Doug
>Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 4:47 AM
>To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>Subject: Re: Linux notetaker
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>You can buy the Mini ITX boards that are inside that
>box for cheap. Throw it in a box and you have the
>same thing. You can also go down to about 4x4 inches
>with and PC/104 CPU board. There are now a wide range
>of single 4x4 or 4x6 inch boards with audio including
>Pentiums, Geodes, Crusoe, etc. They are selling for
>as low as $350 (with processor, without RAM). The
>lower power units tend to cost more. I have tons of
>info on embedded hardware and such here:
>
>http://home.earthlink.net/~wearable/
>
>    -- Doug
>
>
>
>Cecil wrote:
> >Check out this article at cnet.
> >http://news.com.com/2100-1042-998203.html?tag=fd_top
> >Given a speakup enabled kernel and an external synth this would be a small
> >package.  If it's got onboard sound and software synth is an option then it
> >moves up to awesome.
>
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