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Posted by: quinterro on 2008-01-17 10:19:23
I found a Compaq iPAQ IA-2 Internet Appliance at the local thrift store for $15. Apparently it boots from ROM and has a spot for a hard drive. So far that's about all I know about it.
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Posted by: benjgvps on 2008-01-17 14:06:49
That thing looks cool! How well does it do internet?
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Posted by: quinterro on 2008-01-17 14:20:43
I'm not sure yet. At the moment the main unit is in my office but the keyboard is in the car. Also you have to turn it on with the keyboard - a standard PC keyboard won't work.
Also there is no ethernet port and only 32MB RAM.
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Posted by: Christopher on 2008-01-17 14:40:27
I had 32MB of ram in my iBook 300MHz blueberry and it made DSL like Dial Up because of the low ram.
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Posted by: benjgvps on 2008-01-17 14:56:04
Does it use dial-up or does it use some obscure connector?
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Posted by: quinterro on 2008-01-17 14:57:14
Does it use dial-up or does it use some obscure connector? It looks like dial-up. Supposedly it runs WinCE but can be hacked to run something else like linux.
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Posted by: benjgvps on 2008-01-17 15:09:58
What are all the connections on it? This thing sounds very interesting, if this thing would be able to connect with Ethernet or something easy to connect I would find one and use it for my alarm clock.
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Posted by: iamdigitalman on 2008-01-17 21:19:11
sounds sweet. I was just looking at some compaq evo t20 thin clients and thinking of getting them. Legacy free goodness.
I am also trying to hunt down a Virgin Webplayer. It is an internet appliance, 2 USB ports, integrated 10" LCD, but it runs a 200mhz geode proc, and is essentailly a x86 machine. People have gotten win 98 and ME running on it. It has a nice little laptop IDE header on the board, along with traces for VGA, serial, PS/2, etc. The keyboard/mouse uses IR, and it runs a stripped version of QNX I think, or some other Lin/unix.
-digital 😉
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Posted by: quinterro on 2008-01-18 05:09:48
I finally got the keyboard and main unit in one place and so far it appears to be DOA.
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