Weekly Project: The $250 Tablet PC and a Project Gone Horribly Awry

Step 2 Buy a Fujitsu Stylistic 1000

There are two popular sites for purchasing a surplus Tablet PC:

• HSC

The model sold at HSC is a transmissive monochrome LCD FMW2430M.

• Surplus Sales of Nebraska

You can purchase three different types of Stylistic 1000 tablets from Surplus Sales of Nebraska:

• FMW2430M Transmissive monochrome LCD; $39
• FMW2430F Transflective monochrome LCD; $39
• FMW2430S DSTN Color LCD; $65

You can find product information for the Stylistic 1000 on the Fujitsu support Web site.

NOTE: Surplus Sales of Nebraska sells a 16Mb DRAM expansion memory card (#FMWEM16; 95-0676-00). This card will NOT fit the Stylistic 1000 PCMCIA slot. According to Bob Grinnell of Surplus Sales of Nebraska, these cards fit a "separate slot" on older Stylistics not the Stylistic 1000.

NOTE 2: Surplus Sales of Nebraska claims that a local IT "expert" was able to load both Windows (sic) and Linux (sic) on the Stylistic 1000.

Comments

[hondagofast]

DRAM? XD Omg, not even my old IBM ThinkPad 600E uses that! XD

[Guy.Fawkes]

All personal computers from about 1984 forward use DRAM. The other option is SRAM, which is about 10 to 100 times as expensive. You may see it called SDRAM or DDR RAM but it's still DRAM.