Following up on my previous post on looking for a tiny computer, I think I’ve finally found something that just about fits the bill.
The HP Jornada 680 is pretty good at doing just what I was looking for. It has wireless through a PCMCIA orinoco card, and RS232 through a funky port out the back. It runs jlime linux, which made it really easy to get up and running without having to compile anything. Since it’s got a somewhat funky SH-3 processor getting a toolchain working was a little tricky, but totally worth it.
The only qualms I’ve got are that the serial connector is really obscure (proprietary even?), it doesn’t have cardbus support, the keyboard is a little tiny, and the “black” case is more of a dark purple.
Pros: everything is solid state (awesome battery life), it’s got a standard 5.0 mm OD x 2.1 mm ID barrel connector at 12v for power, so it interconnects with all my existing ham radio power setups, and it’s compact enough to fit into an inside jacket pocket.
So far, I’ve been pretty happy with it even though finding it after market was a little tricky.
Did you have to install dfrivers to get the Orinico card. I have a similar setup and can see that the card is working but I am not able to connect to the internet. I also am using jlime.
Sister Deb