Now to see if the dumb thing has a DVD or a CDRW. No idea. It's in a tray and covered by the bezel. I do know it's IDE so it's probably the latter and non-functioning..
Well, candidate 2 needs another hard drive. At least it's a SATA motherboard. No biggie
@larand If my Galaxy tablet is anything to go by, I could easily make do with a higher end Samsung phone.
As unpopular a opinion this is, I kind of wish Windows Phone would have worked out.
// @bazbt3 @ronnie
@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.