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)
ShuttleOnline - Shoebox system
- Nano Computer System - Produkter
- M-Series Computer
- VIA mini-ITX motherboard - TINY!
- ABIA TECHNOLOGY
- OQO
- Toshiba - Product Specifications
- Mini-ITX form factor motherboards
- Teletronics Outdoor CPE Router (Linux AP in an enclosure, specifications):
- Teletronics Outdoor CPE Router (a place where you can buy it):
FatPort Fatpoint Wireless Gateway device
- Soekris Engineering -- very small chassis, good price
- uCsimm -- System on Chip (SoC) with a Dragonball processor, the size of a SIMM chip
http://www.uclinux.org/ -- The distro that runs on the uCsimm
Second Hand Hardware
- 486, pen based mono LCD, type 3 PCMCIA hard drive and two PCMCIA slots.
- Pentium 120, pen based color LCD, laptop HD and two PCMCIA slots
- 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."
Http://www.zeronecomputers.co.uk
Specialist suppliers of CD/RW DVD Combo Drives for Notebooks