I'm sure there's a better name for it then this but here's a collection of small form factor hardware that makes for great home firewalls and servers.

Originally posted to the MailingLists by ShaneGibson it has since taken on a life of it's own on the wiki.

• Possio - wireless services gateways (wifi, irda, etc)

  • [http://www.possio.com/split.asp?cat=3&prod=wireless&dynfile=wirelessgateways&id=english&dh=3 http://www.possio.com/]

• ShuttleOnline - Shoebox system

  • http://www.shuttleonline.com/sv24.htm

• Nano Computer System - Produkter

  • http://www.nano-system.com/prod/p266.php

• M-Series Computer

  • http://www.diskmark.com/mseries.htm

• VIA mini-ITX motherboard - TINY!

  • http://www.via.com.tw/en/VInternet/mini_itx.jsp

• ABIA TECHNOLOGY

  • http://www.abiatech.com/

• OQO

  • http://www.oqo.com/

• Toshiba - Product Specifications

  • http://www.toshiba-europe.com/bv/computers/products/servers/serverrange/sg20/techspecs.htm

• Mini-ITX form factor motherboards

  • http://www.mini-itx.com/

• Teletronics Outdoor CPE Router (Linux AP in an enclosure, specifications):

  • http://www.teletronics.com/tii/products/routers/cpe.html

• Teletronics Outdoor CPE Router (a place where you can buy it):

  • http://www.ecommwireless.com/EcommSpecial.html

• FatPort Fatpoint Wireless Gateway device

  • http://www.fatport.com/products/fatpoint_OEM

• Soekris Engineering -- very small chassis, good price

  • http://www.soekris.com/

• uCsimm -- System on Chip (SoC) with a Dragonball processor, the size of a SIMM chip

  • http://www.uclinux.org/ucsimm/

  • http://www.uclinux.org/ -- The distro that runs on the uCsimm

Second Hand Hardware

• FujitsuStylistic1000

  • 486, pen based mono LCD, type 3 PCMCIA hard drive and two PCMCIA slots.

• FujitsuStylistic1200

  • Pentium 120, pen based color LCD, laptop HD and two PCMCIA slots

• DecMultia

  • Alpha proc with onboard nic and two side by side PCMCIA slots.
• Unisys CWD 5100something

  • The CloneSoldiers which make up the CloneArmy. From a website detailing japanese releases of american pc hardware: "UNISYS CORP.'s Japanese affiliate has added a compact, high-performance model to the desktop PC Advantage Series that it hopes to sell as client machines for corporate systems. Powered by a 100-megahertz Pentium, the CWD 51001 has Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 preinstalled. A standard model with 16 megabytes of internal memory and a 1-gigabyte hard drive is priced at $2,800, while a unit with 32 megabytes of internal memory costs $3,800 (this is the model PersonalTelco has). The first-year sales target is 10,000 units."

www.zeronecomputers.co.uk Specialist suppliers of CD/RW DVD Combo Drives for Notebooks

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