[geeks] WebPals for $9.99 + S/H (link to reseller)

[Mike Hebel]

On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 10:14 AM, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:45:12AM -0500, Mike Hebel wrote:
>
>> I wish I had time to mess with things like this.  I have barely enough
>> time for working with stuff as it is. And these things require
>> re-flashing, soldering, and other misc stuff just to get working with 
>> a
>> real operating system.  And what are you left with?  Maybe a good thin
>
> The soldering is only required if you want IDE without adding an add on
> ISA card.  Potentially a cheap super care (one that has serial,
> parallel, and IDE on one card) might work if it could share IRQs (don't
> know that such a thing actually existed), or there is a guy who makes a
> supercard specially for the WebPal that has ethernet on it, and IDE.
> That would be quite usefull.  IDE is likely to crawl.

Looking at these again I _do_ see a use for them - in car MP3 players.  
The CF cards and maybe an IDE drive would make them ideal for this.

> Reflashing is no big deal.  If you screw it up, it is probably set up 
> so
> that you could use JTAG to fix things.  In fact, it likely has JTAG
> already, so you could potentially use JTAG to make a backup and not 
> risk
> screwing it up.

JTAG?

Mike Hebel