[SunRescue] forget a Palm VII, I want one of these

[Ken Hansen]

WinCHIP at 200 Mhz clock speed
32 Meg RAM (pugradeable, SODIMM, 128 Meg works fine)
All have some form of IDE connector, some are harder than others to use...
16 Meg FLASH
USB/Parallel/56 K *real* modem
Keyboard is missing an escape key, ctrl-[ is a suitable substitute in most
cases
Keyboard/mouse are standard PS/2 parts, to use seperate, aftermarket mouse &
keyboard, a PS/2 splitter must be purchased.

There are forms of *nix OSs that can be stored completely in the Flash, I
run something called Jailbait ( less than 16 meg, get it?) that is quite
useful.

If you are not so interested in the exact form factor, a cheap laptop would
suffice for most uses.

If you want a fun little box to tinker with, a THinkNIC (www.thinknic.com)
is nice, and about $200 for a nice little box...

HTH,

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Khoury" <pkhoury2 at loop.com>
To: "James Lockwood" <james at foonly.com>; <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 3:26 AM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] forget a Palm VII, I want one of these


> On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 12:02:53 -0800 (PST), James Lockwood wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> >
> >> Now this is what I call fun!  Man, what I wouldn't do for one...
> >>
> >> http://www.geocities.com/funmazer/index.html
> >
> >I'm thinking about stuffing a joypad and some ni-cads into an I-Opener
and
> >turning it into a portable MAME box booting from flash.  Anyone have
> >recommendations on where to snag one (besides Ebay) and which ones are
the
> >easiest to tweak?
> >
> The older machines were easier to tweak, as rumor has it that the new
revisions
> of the I-Opener don't have the 2.5" IDE connectors, and aren't setup to be
> dismantled.  As for OS, they're running QNX.  You will also need a new
keyboard,
> because I think their's is missing something trivial like the ESC key or
something.
> Other specs I think are like 8 or 16MB of FLASH, 16 or 32MB of RAM, modem,
parallel,
> and I think it has a Winchip running @ 166MHz.
>
> I read specs and how-to on them quite a while ago.
>
> Paul
>
>
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