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STEALTH WARRIOR eVIEW - Volume 03 - Issue 09 - October 2004

• LittlePC with PCI Slot

• Share Your Story

• Full Blooming Colors

• Death of the Floppy

• Stealth Philosophy

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JUST RELEASED! - Small Form PC with PCI Expansion Slot
Available card slot in a small form factor PC!

October 2004 -Stealth releases the new Expansion Slot ready LittlePC. The available PCI card slot capability opens doors for numerous applications and still presents the opportunity to deploy a small form computer instead of a large clunky desktop machine.

There are many new and existing applications in which a specialized PCI card is required to fulfill the application requirements however end users are typically forced to deploy a full sized desktop PC to get the extra PCI slot availability. The model LPC-401PCI housed in a rugged extruded aluminum enclosure measures out at only 10" x 5.8" x 2.8" in size and will accommodate 1X PCI card of up to 9.4” (24 cm) in length. The LPC-401PCI is ideal for data acquisition, digital I/O and specialized communications cards. For detailed technical info on the LPC-401PCI navigate to our Data Sheet.

The LittlePC products serve a demanding market where powerful solutions are being deployed in space-challenged applications around the world. LittlePCs are Ideal for applications such as Automation & Control, Digital Signs, Kiosks, Embedded Control, Thin-Clients, POS & Human/Machine Interface applications. Stealth offers a wide range of configurations including Fanless, DC Power Input, Wireless, PCMCIA, Multi-LAN, Compact Flash and Expansion Slot systems.

Please visit our on-line pricing guide for Pentium 3 and Pentium 4 LittlePCs.

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What's Happening?? Are you working on an interesting application with Stealth products and would like to share the story with our readers? If so, send us a paragraph or two along with some interesting pics. Selected application stories will receive some of our cool StealthWEAR.

FULL BLOOMING COLORS
New Stealth Advertisements blossom for 2004/2005

Stealth’s new advertising campaign was officially kicked off this month with a concentrated focus on the Operator Interface and Controls market. The “Full Blooming Colors” motif is a series of advertisements that concentrate on our StealthVU family of Industrial Grade LCD’s. Over the past 15 years Stealth has quietly become a leader in the design and manufacture of specialized LCDs for industry. Look for the new ads in the upcoming issues of: Control, EP&T, Control Design and Control Engineering.

Sneak a peak at the “Full Blooming Colors” ad click here.

For detailed information on Stealth’s Industrial grade and specialized LCDs click here.

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RIP –Death of The Floppy disc drive
Are reports of its demise greatly exaggerated?

Now ask yourself, when was the last time you used a floppy?

Floppy discs have been around since the 1970s and remain the oldest form of low cost removable storage still around. In a sense, it’s amazing they have hung around for this long. They only hold 1.44 megabytes of available space -- still enough for word processing docs but useful for little else. By comparison, CDs store upward of 700 megabytes, DVDs are 4.7GB and the flash memory USB thumb drives typically carry between 16MB up to 2.0GB

Now, there's nothing really novel about ditching the floppy drive; after all, Apple Computer did it almost five years ago (heated reaction at the time) with the release of the first iMac. For many the floppy has been dead for some time now. Once email attachments became mainstream most of us forgot they even existed. The floppy disc has several replacements; including writeable compact discs, USB/Firewire portable drives and the ever-popular USB keychain flash devices. All can hold much more data, are speedy to read/write data and are less likely to break.

Most of Stealth systems today are shipped without the Floppy Drive. Many small form factor PCs use the internal real estate for more technologically advanced features. Having said that there are still various legacy systems shipping from our factory with good ole Floppies mounted proudly within. As with most technology transitions, over time users figured out that they could do without. For now the choice is still up to the end user to decide.

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We started our business quietly in 1990 because there was an unfulfilled need in the marketplace for computers and peripherals that could survive the daily battlezone conditions of the shop floor. With our engineering backgrounds in process control, instrumentation and factory automation we knew first hand what was really needed and we possessed the experience and empirical knowledge to design and create ruggedized computer products to fill that void.

Stealth Computer Corporation is continuing to grow from our basic root philosophy and is evolving as a leading provider of premium rugged computer systems and peripherals to a wide range of industrial, commercial and scientific users, worldwide. Stealth is an ISO 9001:2000 Certified Company.

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