@larand
If you live by mobile and do business with people all over a continent, you buy the best, most reliable phone you can afford. If cheap is at the top of your list in that circumstance, you deserve everything that happens.
If I didn't do this for a living, I'd have a legion of cheap, rooted Android phones filled with APKs from my repo because fun.
// @bazbt3 @ronnie
Candidate 2 has not vomited pea soup or caused the nanny to play piñata so I will cautiously move forward.
Candidate number two actually has SATA, a db9 serial port and a parallel port. It already boots to a fresh RHEL 5 install. Hardware willing, I think we have a winner. Room for a 3.5" floppy in case the end user is incapable of typing the requisite copy con command on the DOS machine to receive the file transfer software.
Shuttle XPC candidate number one has been eliminated.
Number two is up at the plate.
Real creation is always ugly.
Omitted: Picture of ugly lump of Shuttle XPC parts booting off an old IDE drive containing God only knows what.
@larand Easier to ship and doesn't require a damned AT keyboard. Since the recovery tools will be console based, the prime Linux irritant will be eliminated.
Inject DOS client via serial or generate a floppy. Machine can then connect to DOS system, grab data and ftp it straight to me.
And I don't have to go near a airport
@larand Im thinking this thing with a db25 port, running Linux and with a LapLink solution of my own (And a DOS counterpart) is a better option.
