17 Jul
2006
17 Jul
'06
1:41 a.m.
It's not quite 10 years old, but it's off-the-wall enough, I think, to
fit in here. I have a NiC that I got when they were new. It's great,
but somewhat orphaned. For those that don't know, it was a
dictionary-sized Intel box, notable for its lack of a hard drive.
Larry Ellison (of Oracle fame) intended it to be an Internet Appliance
and Windows Killer. The company sold a number of the machines, but
never made a big splash. They folded a few years ago, and took things
like their Yahoo Group with them.
What I'm specifically after was an ISO that someone came up with that
would boot the NiC, then run entirely out of a RAM disk, allowing you
to mount different CDs of music as a jukebox. I have a project I'd
like to do and I think that would make a good starting point. I've
been googling for NiC and disk images and such for a while and can't
even find any of the once-available standard boot images for the NiC,
let alone anything a little bit custom.
Thanks for any tips.
-ethan