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The front shows nothing out of the ornery, other than the machines branded Husky.
The top, quite sparse, but could of had the capability to have had a cellular modem or WiFi installed for remote work.
An Alpha build pointing at an early working production prototype. However the machine does not have any early demonstration software on it sadly.
Under the battery lives a CF card slot. Also a copyright date of 2001, so this machine would of probably been released in 2002.
Two of the strange ports that I do not know the pin out of. There is also an IR port for "wireless communications".
Bottom ports are also different.
A production Husky GoBook 100/IX100. We have lost the colored buttons & the Husky Key.
Battery is a pretty standard 7.4V Li-ION battery.
Up the top of the PCB you have the main computer part. The chip with the OK sticker is an ARM CPU with the oscillator next to it. Then the other chips with a sticker on is the built in FLASH memory, used as the main storage. Then below that looks to be the display driver chip, to it's left are the two RAM chips.
The middle of the board mostly consists of voltage regulation & jelly bean logic chips.
The bottom of the PCB has a Xilinx FPGA, Atmel 8-bit microcontroller & an RS-232 serial controller chips, used for communications. Also a few more voltage regulators.
These two chips under the krypton tape have resistor networks soldered to them, they got forgot when designing the PCB, or testing showed they were needed. There is also a bodge wire between one RAM chip to a resistor network.
There is a fair bit of bodge wiring on the PCB, this one looks to be a voltage regulator mounted on top of a chips with a few wires from said chip going further up the board.
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