High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vulcan FlipStart is a super compact PC that weighs 1.75 pounds (with standard high capacity battery) and is only the size of a paperback novel (4.5 by 5.9 by 1.6 inches with high capacity battery). FlipStart is the release name for the concept PC Paul Allen showed at CES 2003 and 2004, specifically FlipStart V1.0.