Old 486 Board for ECU??

[Chad]

>Take an old machine that companies are chucking out.(I've got a few
>486's,early p100's etc..)  Rip out the hard drive,(the bit that  REALLY
>won't like the harsh environment of the automotive world) and all other
>sundries like a sound card(if your lucky!!), cd-rom etc...

Every BIOS I have ever dealt with won't boot without a hard drive.  It 
needs to pass control to some sort of boot sector, usually present on the 
hard drive.  I remember seeing an industrial PC that used SRAM in place of 
a hard drive.  If a person could use that, you wouldn't need to load a bin 
from a floppy drive, just keep the data on the RAM "hard drive".  I think 
even a floppy drive would not be able to handle the intensity of automotive 
conditions for very long.

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