ISO: Compaq Portable 3 "docking station" (?)

[Joe R.]

At 10:05 AM 6/29/06 -0700, you wrote:
>I'd like to find a docking station/expansion chassis
>for my Portable 3.  It's my understanding that this
>will hold *two* (full size?) ISA cards. 

   It's been awhile so I'm not positive but I think it takes 3/4 length
boards and IIRC one slot is 8 bit and the other is 16 bit.



 I'm hoping
>that this will be a good, *compact* home for my
>Opus PM (I'd hate to have to set up a regular PC
>for this -- the Portable 3 has the advantage of the
>built in display, etc.).
>
>Alternatively, can anyone suggest something that will
>hold two full size ISA cards in a similarly small
>footprint?  Ideally, with a COLOR display instead

   I've seen similar luggables that have color screens. A lot of them were
originally used for network snoopers. I have a color one somewhere. I don't
remember who made it but I think Dolch built some. You might check E-bay
for Dolch computers. The snoopers usually have three slots but I don't
think ANY of the lunch box size machines will support a FULL length card.
They simply not big enough. If you really need to use full size cards then
check for one of the suitcse size Compaq Portable or Portable II or
something of that size.

    Joe


>of the Portable 3's orange plasma -- though I can live
>with the monochrome as the GNX code is early SysV
>without much frilly stuff (I think I have a beta
>version of X Windows 10 that might run on that
>hardware, though...)
>
>Thanks!
>--don
>