The DR-DOS/OpenDOS Enhancement Project


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Posted by: Magkisa83
12/30/2009, 22:48:17


Hi there. I'm planning on switching to Enhanced DR-DOS soon for just about everything, and I'm in the market for a palmtop/ultraportable. I've looked around and the wide selection of choices plus the lack of information on many models is really frustrating me. So I'm wondering if I can have a machine made with the following specifications? As you'll see, I'm very flexible. Btw, I'm totally blind, as I said in another thread, so that's why I don't require a mouse, touchscreen, excellent graphics etc. When I mention accessibility, I'm referring to screenreader-compatible programs. I've included it incase any of you here are blind or visually-impaired. If so, please get back to me. I have some questions for you and don't want to clutter the list. Dbd means determined by designer, or in the case of a preexisting machine, whatever is best.

Form Factor
under 10 inches

Memory
hard disk capacity
No more than 6gb (unless the os can handle it without partitioning) and no less than 100mb. Former preferred.
Ram/Rom
dbd

Cpu
No less than 80486 and no more than pentium II or whichever processor works best with EDRD and most programs.

Input
built-in keyboard
No touchscreen, stylus, trackpad or mouse buttons.

Screen-related
resolution, dbd
graphics etc. dbd

Battery
Type, dbd
Ability to recharge in machine would be nice.
Battery life must be grater than five hours.
Must have an alarm or program to inform me when it's running low, since I can't see an indicator light.

Connectivity
1 standard rs-232 serial port (2 strongly preferred)
1 pcmcia slot/reader (2 if possible)
1 parallel port
1 2.0 usb port (optional)
1 line-in jack or microphone jack
1 headphone jack
1 modem jack with internal 56k modem (optional)
1 ethernet jack (optional)

OS
Enhanced DR-DOS of course
Latest stable release with all necessary drivers and patches.

Software
WordPerfect, WordPerfect Editor or other similar accessible program
an mp3/media player
an mp3 recorder
an accessible internet browser
an accessible ocr program
QuickBASIC 4.5
Laplink or other program to connect to another pc
other essential software dbd

Ideal/optional
built-in speakers and/or sound card
wireless card
internal microphone
internal 3.5 inch floppy or superdisk drive
built-in web cam
built-in speech

That's all I could think of for now. The last category is purely optional, though the sound card would be great. I highly doubt the speech is possible but had to add it. So how much would it cost? Does anyone know where I can have this computer made or if there's already one out there that meets a decent amount of my specifications? I have a Compaq Armada 1750, with incredible specs, but it's large and extremely heavy. Maybe, there's another smaller Windows 95 machine that I can convert for use with DOS.



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