[simpits-tech] Rotating monitor image

[Matt Bailey]

Wow, how do you manage to fit Windows on a flash card?

Have you considered using Linux?

	-Matt Bailey

On Monday 30 June 2003 04:35 pm, you wrote:
> Does anyone know of a driver, utility, gizmo, or whatever that will rotate
> Windows 90 degrees on a monitor? This odd little diskless computer thing
> I'm working on might wind up with a widescreen LCD that would work much,
> much better if it was tall instead of wide. But then it might not. Hmm...
> hall effect sensor on the front wheel, inductive pickup on a plug wire,
> thermistor in a water hose... Yup, that would be pretty cool. Have Windows
> run my instrument panel ;)
>
> I did figure out how to stuff Windows onto a Compact Flash card and make
> everything work (though I haven't tried it yet). Fire up machine, start a
> Ramdrive, install Windows to it, then copy the ramdrive to the CF card.
> Takes a little fiddling with autoexec.bat and config.sys files to get
> everything to do what it needs to do when it needs to do it, but it'll
> work. The other solution is to force windows to write temp files and
> virtual memory to the ramdrive and leave the OS itself on the CF card.
> Everything will work fine except for the huge pile of temp files trashing
> the CF card in 3 hours.
>
> Another use for this thing, though it's probably overkill at $500/ea.,
> would be as an MFD. Completely self contained, just give it power and stick
> it on the network.