Awhile ago, I was considering a laptop or a palmtop. Well, I couldn't find a palmtop that matched my specifications (alot less than these of course), so decided to try for a laptop or desktop. I sent my request to several places, and one company, JG Custom PCs, said that they' be willing to make one for me. The laptop would be out of my price range but the desktop would be far less than the $600-$800 that I'd set as my highest prices. Plus, it would give me great flexibility and true customisability. So here are my final computer specs that I sent to the technician. Please let me know if I've missed anything essential and feel free to make comments or to ask questions. He hasn't started building it yet and is in the process of looking for parts. If you're not interested in reading all the specs then I'd like to know one thing. Should I get PCI or ISA slots or neither? I've already included serial and parallel ports and pcmcia and scsi slots. But I'm not sure if I'll need a pci or isa slot and wouldn't want to be without one if I do. If you have a laptop that meets a good number of these specs and are willing to sell it, could you please let me know offlist? The 5.25 floppy, cd rom, scsi slot, ethernet jack and usb port are not necessary on the laptop. I'd also like something under 7 lbs. if possible and with less than a 14.1 screen (smaller is better). Needless to say, I'll also except a desktop if you have it, same exceptions apply, with the addition of the pcmcia slot not being necessary, since most desktops don't have those. But having both floppies would be nice. The only catch is that it has to have some DOS drivers, at least for important things like the bios, or I'm not sure if I'll be able to have the os installed on it, which explains why I didn't simply buy one from Ebay. But I can do the research if you give me the name and model.
Stars mean that something is essential and dbd means determined by designer. The optional section is idealistic and not necessary. === Desktop Specifications Form Factor small/able to fit on desk (mini tower if possible and regular desktop if not) Weight whatever is reasonable for size and hardware included hard disk capacity No more than 5gb and no less than 100mb if there's no partition. Willing to accept a partition of a single 10gb drive split into two5gb drives or two separate internal drives but if you know how to makeDOS see more than 5gb I'll accept a larger single drive. Nothing over 20gb is needed. Ram *No more than 64mb and no les than 32mb. CPU Speed No more than 500mhz and no less than 100mhz. Input Enhanced 101 keyboard (already owned but a new one is fine so long as it doesn't connect via usb port.) Media *1 3.5 in. (1.44mb,, LS240 or HiFD 200mb) floppy *1 5.25 in. high dencity floppy, 1 cd rom Connectivity *1 standard RS-232 9-pin male serial port *1 bidirectional female parallel port (2 if possible) *1 pcmcia slot *1 modem jack with internal 56k modem 1 ethernet jack *1 ps/2 port 1 line-in jack or microphone jack *1 headphone/speaker jack video ports dbd 1 scsi slot 1 usb 2.0 port Sound *built-in DOS-compatible sound card Screen-related resolution: dbd graphics etc.: dbd OS Latest stable release of Enhanced DR-DOS with all necessary drivers and patches preferred. If not, then a machine with FreeDOS installed. Links and installation instructions will be provided. Ideal/optional parts from Japan,, America, Europe etc. and not china, Korea, Taiwan etc. (really appreciated) ability to burn with cd rom if drive is included wireless card (WaveLAN and ORiNOCO might work with DOS) metal casing 1 750mb zip drive other essential hardware dbd For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
