Is An Old Honeywell Tablet Useful For Anything?

Big companies purposefully using niche cables can't even stop this guy, bro just casually has a compatible plug laying around.

Ex Honeywell support employee here. I did not support the Thor directly, but I did support products that were used with the Thor. Whenever I would need one to test with, the folks that did support it had a whole host of CF cards with different releases of Windows on them. Everything was custom built. I do recall building one or two CF cards on my own. And recall it being a royal PITA. The image as you said can be had from the website. But I do not recall exactly how it got onto the CF card. The touch screens on those were a real pain to get up an going. $500 bucks? Try $3000+ per unit depending on the options. You have the VM1 flavor of the Thor. Windows CE only. Completely custom CF card required to boot and run.

Awesome! "This time I failed in green so it looks like I'm hacking!" Be quote of the day lol

There’s some delicious irony in the fact that this industrial computer is now only capable of running a game

Regarding CFlash: I have a friend who does field work for restaurants that use Micros POS system. Their workstations still use CompactFlash. The good thing about them is that if the workstations themselves have a HDD failure, you can just pull the old one out and pop the new one in and install a new POS image. Newer POS stations are sealed, so if one fails you essentially have to replace the whole thing.

Sci Fi prop? a couple of belts and you could mount that thing to your arm like the Pip-Boys from Fallout.

Man, that's not a proprietary connector. It's standard industrial M12. I fix stuff like that as hobby - the parts are available for 20 years form any electronics catalog. There is a reason for it all. "Standard USB" does not have retainers and is not waterproof. What you would call "standard" power plugs are not waterproof and have no retainers. CF is still used in industrial stuff as it is electrically compatible with IDE. The costs are not that overpriced at all. They come form industrial grade components used, custom keyboards, custom durable enclosures, very tiny manufacturing runs in comparison to typical PC shit and astronomically long R&D that goes into it in respect to sells numbers. 500 bucks for it is so cheap. Amazone amatrons cost liek 3000 and up.. Those salaries have to be compensated by the price. Also, to run graphical stuff on it you should start with finding out what graphics adapter is in it. Check the chipset in case it's integrated.. You need to use drivers form vendor.

Depending on many things being able to work, some things thay come to mind for its use: -Dedicated CNC pc/controller - Midi/vst host for live performance - stationary bike pc (for Zwift/ Golden Cheetah etc.) - spotify server that lives in your media/ sound system cabinet.

Was watching Diesel Creek recent forklift video and sure enough there is a tablet like that on some, running windows ce or embedded for weight app and so on

Just so you're aware; because CF cards were used for a long time in professional digital cameras, you can find 32gb and even 64gb cards from what I've seen around in shops back then. Iunno about anything above that but I figure you could just use a CF to SD adapter and whatever capacity sd card you wanted to have in there.

Good thing spring is here it will make a fine boat anchor for the jet boat...

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They would have been perfect for a 90's Roger Corman flick.

It’s so funny that after failing to load multiple operating systems it was still able to run doom with almost no problems.

CF cards seem to be fairly popular for retro gaming because they can just replace IDE drives and are pretty fast

I watched this before it was published (from playlists). Honestly, this is the best channel ever.

"This time we failed in green!" LOLOL

Appreciate you trying! We all learned even though you didn’t get anywhere. At least we know now 🙂

When in doubt, run doom. Looks like a pretty handy piece of tech if you work in the field though.

There’s a small Linux distribution I’ve used on 1GB CF cards called “Voyage MPD” that you might could try. There is also Tinycore Linux and DSL which can be installed in insanely small drives like 16MB. And also NetBSD can be installed with very little space as well, but if you aren’t familiar with BSDs that could be tedious. 😀