[openbeos] Re: BeIA - PC

Didn't Compaq basically just use BeIA as leverage to get a better deal with
MS on a CE package or something like that?  I seem to remember that they had
no real intention to ship with BeIA on the Clipper.

I often wonder what would have happened if Be could have stayed in business
only maybe a year or so longer so that the eVillas and Qubit's products
could have gotten to market (nevermind all the audio platforms that were
supposed to happen)... but again, it was a market that wasn't matured enough
or ready at that time.

Bummer that I ebayed my tablets and other IA stuff a long time ago when
money was tight... kinda wish I still had them around to experiment with
Haiku on.  ;)

Okay, sorry for the OT rants.  :)

DJ


On 3/26/07, Raymond C. Rodgers <obos@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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,
>> >>
>> >> I browsed thru ebay an found this:
>> >>
>> >>
>>
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?
>> >>
>> >> Best regards
>> >> Ronny Wisor
>> >> __________________________________
>> >> Webseite: www.ronnywisor.de
>> >>
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