Its possible that they could goo the area with epoxy which will make it very
difficult but not impossible to add the drive. I have seen other manu's do
this as a quick fix until a more permanant solution can be
engineered.(remember Videocipher?)
I still have one ordered hoping the mod will still be possible.
Brian.
Megan wrote:
> >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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Received on Fri Mar 24 2000 - 21:29:30 GMT