Douglas,

I'm really sorry about you wife's health problems. I was unaware about
this condition and, as a matter of fact, will relay some of the information
passed along this thread to my own wife (she is a trained doctor).

Maybe she provide additional insights that could improve your wife's
conditions.

Back to the technicalities...

You are in need of a system capable of meeting the following requirements:

 - lower CPU (Pentium-class machine or similar)
 - low noise
 - low power requirements
 - memory and disc: more is always better
 - network: 100Mbits should be enough, wifi is not recommended
 - and, of course, able to run OpenBSD :)

So, my best guess would fall into an embedded device. I had made some
searches for embedded or single/small board computers in the past and a few
links were present on my bookmarks lists. As you an see, there is other
companies beyond soekris that can make really useful stuff.

Some equipment have connectors for both IDE HDD and compact flash
cards and their small footprint can help in building EF shields less bulky.

Hope this helps.

Best regards for you and your wife.

Marcus.

http://www.axiomtek.com/products/ListProductType.asp?ptype1=0&ptype2=1

http://www.orbitmicro.com/global/35ecxembeddedcompactextendedtechnologyembeddedboards-...

http://versalogic.com/Products/

http://www.pcengines.ch/platform.htm

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2194852,00.asp

http://www.zonbu.com/home/index.htm

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