[Publib] catalog kiosk hardware?

[Joe Knueven]

My first choice would be Sharon's suggestion, hand building one using 
the size enclosure you wanted, etc..

Another option that comes to mind would be to use an old laptop attached 
to an external monitor, keyboard & mouse. 

To give an example, I personally have an old IBM Thinkpad 600 laptop 
that has a Pentium III processor, 512 MB of ram and a hard drive.  An 
equivalent laptop should cost $100 or less on the auction site of your 
choice, even if you had to buy the ram separately. 

While it is a little choppy running java based webapps, it is perfectly 
fine browsing ordinary websites, and runs Windows XP without issue..

Hope this helps.  Have a good day.

Joe

Joseph Knueven
Director
Germantown Public Library
51 N. Plum St.
Germantown, OH 45327
937-855-4001



Sharon Foster wrote:
> Short of building it yourself from an enclosure, a motherboard, a
> power supply, and components, I'd start at the local computer hardware
> storefront and tell them what you need--memory, hard drive, CD drive
> (?), network interface, etc.
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> Sharon M. Foster, JD, MLS
> Librarians bring order out of chaos.
> http://www.vsa-software.com/mlsportfolio/
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> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Ben Haines<bhaines at fppl.org> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> Right now our library has several catalog-only computers running on the
>> same hardware as the public access PC's.  It seems like overkill,
>> though. Does a PC that's only ever running a web browser really need a
>> DVD writer? Plus, a smaller machine would fit on smaller furniture,
>> which would give us more options for space design.
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>> Can anyone recommend good hardware to use as a catalog kiosk? The catch
>> is that, for various reasons, the machines need to be running Windows,
>> so a tiny purpose built Linux box isn't an option.
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>> Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
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>> Best,
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>> Ben Haines
>> Reference/Technology Librarian
>> Forest Park Public Library
>> bhaines at fppl.org
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