On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 14:16 -0700, Bob Blick wrote:
> A long long way back(1999) I built a computer for my car to play mp3's
> and I made it shut down after the car had been off for a half hour, so
> it wouldn't need to reboot if I was just running a short errand. I

Amazing Bob, I did the exact same thing, although a couple years after
that.

It was a Pentium 233 running 98 IIRC sitting in the trunk. I used a
serial IR receiver and IR remote to control winamp and a character LCD
display connected to the parallel port for feedback (along with a volume
control and the power button).

It worked quite well, but the inverter always rebooted when I started
the car, never got quite as far with it as you did, still, you brought
back alot of memories.

My friends still mention my car PC from time to time... :)

TTYL

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