Okay, not exactly within timeframe for classic, but...

From: Dan Wright <dtwright_at_uiuc.edu>
Date: Sun Aug 26 11:01:44 2001

Eric Dittman said:
>
> I bought one from Circuit City and one from CompUSA. The one from Circuit
> City was sent to my in-laws, and they use is as it was intended. The one
> from CompUSA was the demo unit so it was very easy to hack. I turned it
> into a small Linux box.

I got one from circuit city. I had to replace the ROM to get it to boot a HD,
but I did so and put a 4GB laptop and it now dual-boots linux and win98.

The only hard part of the whole thing was scraping off the damn epoxy they
used to stick the ROM chip into its socket...

- Dan Wright
(dtwright_at_uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)

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