24 Mar
2000
24 Mar
'00
7:55 a.m.
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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