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

[Ken Hansen]

I-Openers are going through a bit of transition, as NPLI is getting out of
the device market... There may be a glut of these units on the market
soon... AT&T will be taking over the service.

Another choice would be a low-cost laptop - a company I have dealt with
(supersellers.net) has 11 Portege 650ct laptops for sale on Ebay, $200/each
w/ 32 Meg RAM, 3.2 Gig HD, 11.3" TFT (800x600, 2 Meg Video RAM), and  P/133
CPU w/256K cache. it does *not* include a diskette or CD-ROM drive, but
these are only 4+ pounds heavy. AC/battery are included, and the usnit has a
28.8 modem and 2xType II PCMCIA slots available.

I'd like to try for one, but I *really* don't need one...

That would make a nice MAME, MP3 or general laptop (IMHO). I would also
suggest that these would make great kid computers (my 4 year old has an HP
800 laptop - fairly similar specs, I simply copy the CD-ROMs for his games
onto the HD< then he can run them anywhere! Of course, I paid closer to $600
for mine about 18 mos. ago...).

HTH,

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Lockwood" <james at foonly.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] forget a Palm VII, I want one of these


> 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?
>
> -James
>
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