low cost embedded PC's

[Peter D. Hipson]

Well, they are worth every penny you paid for them! <g> The 80188 is
basically a 8088 with a few minor enhancements. Now, that said, you could
write something on a PC and try to port it over. You'd have to be careful,
but it is doable. You could write in C, or Assembly.

At 10:01 PM 6/17/99 +1000, you wrote:
>Okay - here's a thought...
>
>The other day, at a trash-and-treasure sale at the local shopping centre,
>I picked up a few different printer ethernet controller units. These have
>a 10baseT and/or 10base2 connector and one or two parallel ports and
sometimes
>a serial port too. They are used on a network to connect PCs to a networked
>printer.
>
>Two of them had 80C188 microcontrollers and another two had Z180s. Two
even had 
>large flash ROMs. All of them, except the Intel unit, also came in a nice
brushed
>aluminium box. I payed $2.00 each (on average) for these "gems" and  I
started
>to think what other uses I could put them to. Gee, whaddya know....
>
>So, here's my new (long term) project, the $2.00 EFI. 
>
>Anyone interrested?
>
>regards,
>-- 
>Peter Gargano
>
>
Thanks, 
        Peter Hipson (founder, NEHOG)
        1995 White NA Hummer Wagon