Greetings from San Diego.

I have been playing with small PCs for a little over ten years, and I'm glad they finally have a well established forum I can look for all the little tech and driver things I am always slogging through when playing with these little machines.

Joined today because I had some curiosities about a RamLine510 I just got from e-bay. I have quite a few years experience with several other small PCs and tablets though:

1995-ish, put a "Book PC" into my little Hyundai Excel so I could play DVDs and these cool new "MP3 files" in Winamp.....stripped down a tiny AMD K62-550 machine and had it and a 10" VGA (crt) running under the console. It was a beast of a setup...but sounded GREAT, and doubled as a MAME machine to play Donkey Kong during lunch breaks.

Over the years have always been fascinated with little tiny computers that ran "real" operating systems....so have had LOTS of experience with Toshiba Librettos, Palmax machines and now......lots of old little tablets. I could have a shiny new tablet machine, but what fun would THAT be?

Experience with Mitsubishi Amity XP machines (have two, but they have BOTH lost their IDE controllers now)....Fujitsu "stylistic" machines, Toshiba Librettos (not tablets, but still most of the same hardware limitations), and now the RamLine510 (which looks like so much fun, I'm gonna get a couple more from him).

I generally just have alot of experience in the common problems of installing OSs on machines that don't have floppy drives....aren't beefy enough to run anything above Win98se (Ramline appears to be decent enough to run XP), or are just generally a struggle to get running something it wasn't supposed to.

Librettos running KDE on FreeBSD (I think 5.3 stable)
Librettos running ridiculous hard drives (via DiskManager)
Amity machines with external amps, ridiculous hard drives, USB hub hacks to the case....external serial ports for robotics projects, WiFi sniffing.

Fujitsu pen machines (very early ones like the 510). Can't do a whole lot with these, but have loaded them up from scratch in ME or 98se and gotten their tablets to work as well.

Past projects:
Most of these ran 98SE or briefly WinME because of RAM constraints usually. They usually end up in 98se because Windows ME always tends to make a horrible SUCKING sound after awhile ;-P

Amity machines serving as MP3 jukeboxes, speech recognition and communication augmentation for handicapped (think Stephen Hawking...but for handicapped children), Wireless Internet (A,B,G and Verizon EVDO),Electronic picture frame projects (usually just slideshows...LONG before you could just buy an electronic frame these days)

Fujitsu Stylistic 510 as a car PC (Don't ask....it sucked :-P

Toshiba Libretto 70 running all sorts of different OSs....and drives from 32meg"solid state" CF to IDE setups...to shoehorning a 120gig IDE drive into one and running WinME on it for over a year.

Toshiba Libretto110 running XPpro on a P233 with 64megs is always fun.

I'm gonna usually be found in the hardware and driver parts of this site, for I am usually more interested in BUILDING these machines than actually using them.

Cheers!!