From sucotronic at gmail.com Mon Mar 29 11:07:47 2021 From: sucotronic at gmail.com (Felix) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 12:07:47 +0200 Subject: [Arm-netbook] Status update Message-ID: Hey Luke, hope you and your and fam are doing well ;) We haven't heard anything from you in a while, and would be great to have an status update or something similar :P -- Felix From lkcl at lkcl.net Mon Mar 29 11:13:08 2021 From: lkcl at lkcl.net (Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 10:13:08 +0000 Subject: [Arm-netbook] Status update In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Monday, March 29, 2021, Felix wrote: > Hey Luke, hope you and your and fam are doing well ;) We haven't heard > anything from you in a while, and would be great to have an status update > or something similar :P hiya Felix, yes doing well, very busy with LibreSOC tape-out is soon. Chris received the other 90 of the Cards, for testing before the remaining 900 are done. l. -- --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 From paul at boddie.org.uk Mon Mar 29 20:51:57 2021 From: paul at boddie.org.uk (Paul Boddie) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 21:51:57 +0200 Subject: [Arm-netbook] Status update In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <10710828.G0JCgt9mUL@jason> On Monday, 29 March 2021 12:13:08 CEST Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Monday, March 29, 2021, Felix wrote: > > Hey Luke, hope you and your and fam are doing well ;) We haven't heard > > anything from you in a while, and would be great to have an status update > > or something similar :P > > hiya Felix, yes doing well, very busy with LibreSOC tape-out is soon. > > Chris received the other 90 of the Cards, for testing before the remaining > 900 are done. We'll certainly look forward to news of how well the testing went. :-) Meanwhile, browsing old computer magazines, I came across this: "This may well be the smallest Windows-class PC in the world. The Cardio 386, from S-MOS, is the size of a type 3 PCMCIA card, and is now available in a 486 configuration. The i/o pins are on the long edge, unlike a normal PC card. The cards are designed for embedded applications." "Smallest ever PC fits on a card" Personal Computer World, July 1995 https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerWorldMagazine/ PCW%20199507%20July%20Created%20From%20PCW%20Cover%20CD/page/n8/mode/1up I guess that since PCMCIA cards are effectively credit card size, the PCMCIA connection is tenuous, but perhaps there was some manufacturing capability available for making something similar to a PCMCIA card that led them in that direction. Paul