PC-104 Board Slaps Down Costs

Putting cost and power concerns under a microscope, the SpacePC 8500 CPU board enlists a frugal, low-voltage 400-MHz Celeron processor that teams with an 815E chipset and, as a result, the board does not require a fan. The 90 mm x 96 mm board features four USB ports, an Ethernet interface, two RS-232 ports, parallel port, floppy-disk port, VGA interface, LVDS LCD interface, one AC'97 bus, auxiliary power, keyboard and mouse ports, and an Ultra DMA IDE controller that supports any type of IDE flash device. Price for the board with 256 MB of SDRAM starts at $599 each/100. PARVUS CORP., Salt Lake City, UT. (801) 483-1533.