[Milsurplus] Re: [MRCA] OT: Army MARS & Computers

[J Forster]

The older IBM Thinkpad 365XD might be a decent choice. Well made and you can get
a 12 VDC adapter for them.

Best,
-John

Richard Arland, W3OSS wrote:

> I recently joined Army MARS and I want to expand my comm capabilities.
>
> My truck has HF/V/UHF capability. All modes including data. My problem is I
> need a small (as in s-m-a-l-l ) laptop that uses 12-14V DC as opposed to
> these exotic 19, 21, 24 VDC models. I need to power it directly from the
> truck's battery supply. It doesn't have to be a Pentium machine but at least
> an old 486 DX100 would be nice.[snip]