WW: Colo Vending Machine

Thu Mar 1 03:50:29 UTC 2012

On Thu, 1 Mar 2012, Dale Shaw wrote:

> Hi Jon,
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Jon Lewis <jlewis at lewis.org> wrote:
>>
>> Speaking of that sort of thing, I'd really LOVE if there were a device about
>> the size of a netbook that could be hooked up to otherwise headless machines
>> in colos that would give you keyboard, video & mouse.  i.e. a folding
>> netbook shaped VGA monitor with USB keyboard and touchpad.  I know there are
>> folding rackmount versions of this (i.e. from Dell), but I want something
>> far more portable.  Twice in the past month, I'd had to drive 100+ miles to
>> a remote colo and took a full size flat panel monitor and keyboard with me.
>>  Has anyone actually built this yet?
>
> What about something like this?
>
> http://www.comsol.com.au/SL-PCC-01
>
> cheers,
> Dale
>
>
>

Or something like this:

http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-Console-Portable-Adapter-NOTECONS01/dp/B002CLKFTQ/

Ted Hatfield