[openbeos] Re: BeIA - PC

It always bothered me how Compaq sold us out... :( Hell, there was a period of weeks that anyone could have gone to their public ftp server and downloaded a copy of the latest BeIA images because they didn't seem to think it was important enough to secure it... <grumble><grumble<grumble>
On the other hand, I really enjoyed working with eVilla, and still wish I had one... My only complaint with it was that Sony wanted to sell it with the ethernet disabled and offer the enabling code as an upgrade at a later time. 
Donovan Schulteis wrote:
Yeah, I recognize that as a Clipper as well. We had one at Qubit. IIRC you did have to crack it open to replace the flash drive. Sounds like Raymond 
remembers a lot more about it... since Qubit stopped BeIA dev before we
started working with the Clipper devices (the Clipper we had in office ran 
WindowsCE).

Deej

On 3/24/07, Raymond C. Rodgers <obos@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Now that I look at something other than the top of the page :-), it does
confirm that my memory hasn't completely failed... I am curious why the
ethernet port is covered... it might have been disabled, but it was
present and working in the last ones we got at Be while I was there...
Any ways, I think it would still be fun to toy around with even today.

Raymond
Raymond C. Rodgers wrote:
> That appears to be one of the Compaq Clipper devices. I don't remember
> how much RAM they had (16 MB maybe?), with an infrared wireless
> keyboard. The keyboard sucked from almost any angle other than
> directly in front of the the sensor, but I believe it had 4 USB ports
> which worked quite well. If it is indeed still running BeIA, it would
> probably be a pre-eVilla build which means it still likely had the
> user-space network stack instead of BONE.  It may be possible to
> install a normal build of BeOS on it if you install it on a larger
> compact flash card. I don't remember if you had to open the machine to
> gain access to that or not though.
>
> Hope that helps... If you need more information, I might be able to
> contact another former Be type to get a bit more information; he still
> has one in his possession though I think he now runs linux on it...
>
> Raymond
> Ronny Wisor wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
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>> I browsed thru ebay an found this:
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http://cgi.ebay.de/Compaq-IA-1-Internet-MiniPC-embedded-BeOS-Opera-Browser_W0QQitemZ250096283940QQcategoryZ132302QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting 
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>> I think it´s a BeIA Computer? Does anyone know something about this?
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>> Best regards
>> Ronny Wisor
>> __________________________________
>> Webseite: www.ronnywisor.de
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