In questo sito giapponese di pcweb, si parla del vespaputer e del raid dei deserti di vespaonline....

http://pcweb.mycom.co.jp/news/2004/10/04/013.html

Questa più o meno la traduzione...(pseudo-traduzione fornita da SYSTRAN )
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VIA Technologies announced that the scooter "VESPA-PUTER" which, is held in the American west seashore from October 2nd extending through the 17th "Raid of the Desert" being similar, loads the small-sized motherboard "EPIA" of the same company participates. The special specification VESPA of Italy VESPAONLINE "VESPA-PUTER" loads the EPIA MII12000 Mini-ITX motherboard of VIA, is the desert that it runs.

As for this Raid of the Desert, popularity has increased in Italy, it is one of the events that, "the rough road of the world it runs", with the last leg which returns to San Francisco also the recreational event like the car chase scene which movie "Bullitt" of 1968 Steve McQueen starring is prepared.

The system of VESPA-PUTER assumes that the GPS navigation system of Internet connection functional attachment is installed in PC which designates EPIA MII 12000 as the base. Route information and the service station, it can search also the accommodations by the fact that you connect to Internet. Small-sized EPIA PC is loaded on the step board of the VESPA scooter, display of 8 inches is mounted in the steering wheel bar, because of touch panel the mouse is not with operation is possible.

24 members of Vespaonline, from the California state San Francisco, to Arizonan state and Utah state approximately 3,500 miles, run at the pace of 1 daily mean 300 - 350 miles. The middle, to stop in Mojave Desert and Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Sequoia and the Zion national park etc., as for difference in elevation of distance elevation from -80m 3,000m.
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