Aware Electronics

Aware Electronics Corp. is a United States of America designer and manufacturer of radiation monitors and Geiger Counters. It is located in Wilmington, Delaware and was incorporated in 1986

Aware's RM-80 detector with thin mica window pancake detector plugged into the LCD-90 microcontroller data-logger with Class 1 Bluetooth adapter sending radiation levels to a PC using radio signals

It produces the RM series of radiation monitors, which include the RM-60, RM-70, RM-80 and the RM-G90 Aware Electronics Corp. is notable in that it was the first company to design, manufacture and market a Geiger Counter and software specifically designed to operate with personal computers. A review of its original product, the RM-60, appeared in the November 1989 edition of PC Magazine A 1996 review of its RM-60 appeared in the June 1995 edition of Computer Life

It also produces the LCD-90 MicroController - Data Logger for use in conjunction with its radiation monitors

On 11 May 2020, AWare Electronics website appears blanked and after that points to a Japanese Company インターネットエレクトロニクス (Internet Electronics).

The remainder of this article concerns itself with Aware Electronics Inc., Ltd, a Taiwanese company, now defunct, which has no relationship what-so-ever with Aware Electronics Corp.

Aware Electronics Inc., Ltd

Aware Electronics Inc., Ltd was a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer. It was established in 2006 with the guidance and assistance of the Institute for Information Industry.

It produced the A-BOOK series, which includes the A-View and AW-300 models (2008). The earlier model AW-150 was sold in the US as the MiTYBOOK.

A-View

is described by Aware as An advanced digital photo frame with the features of a standard PC.

A sub-notebook similar to and probably the basis for the Elonex ONE. It seems to be a development of the similar AW-300 sub-notebook.

Hardware

AW-300

A sub-notebook similar to the A-View. The Operating system is a proprietary LINOS 2.4.25. It includes educational software, GQView, Sylpheed (email), Beaver (a text based editor), VNC and Tux Typing and games such as Xblock out, Xbomb, Xdigger, Xgalaga, Xscavenger.

Hardware

AW-150

A sub-notebook similar to, and probably the basis for, the MiTYBOOK.

Hardware

References

  1. 1 2 "AWARE Electronics". www.aw-el.com. Wilmington: Aware Electronics Corp. Archived from the original on 31 March 2005. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  2. ↑ "The November 1989 PC Magazine article about Aware's original RM-60". www.aw-el.com. Wilmington: Aware Electronics Corp. Archived from the original on 26 February 2020. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  3. ↑ Computer Life: Is Your House Radioactive?
  4. ↑ "Aware Electronics New LCD-90 Pro Micro-Controller Data-Logger". www.aw-el.com. Wilmington: Aware Electronics Corp. Archived from the original on 26 February 2020. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  5. 1 2 3 "Aware Electronics Inc. Ltd history". 8 March 2008. Archived from the original on 8 March 2008. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
  6. 1 2 The A-View Archived February 28, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  7. 1 2 AW-300 A-Bag product detail Archived March 10, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  8. 1 2 AW-150 A-bag product detail Archived March 8, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  9. 1 2 Aware A-Book AW-300 review
  10. ↑ "MiTYBOOK". Archived from the original on 2008-07-27. Retrieved 2008-03-09.