iOpener

From: Megan <mbg_at_world.std.com>
Date: Fri Mar 24 15:55:25 2000

>OK, I got a 6.4 GB laptop drive hooked up and right now the iOpener is
>running DOS/BATCH V10-01A on an emulated PDP-11/40+RK05 system. I love
>it!!!

>It's going to take some real butchery to get the case closed, but I guess
>that's to be expected. The low-profile 3M connector barely fit under the
>CPU heat sink w/o needing it to be clearanced, that was nice.

>BTW the CPU seems to be 200 MHz, not 180 MHz. But it still gets only
>about 80 BogoMIPS, pretty slow.

I heard last night that Netpliance is making modifications so that people
can no longer do this... they are apparently losing a LOT of money selling
the machines, having expected to recoup it in the service charges...

Can someone confirm this... and maybe confirm the change that they
have done (which I understand is simply removal of the cable connector
for the drive).

Oh, and supposedly back-ordered units will have the mod...

                                        Megan Gentry
                                        Former RT-11 Developer

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