[openbeos] Re: BeIA - PC

Hi Raymond,

I buy one of these Compaq PCs, just to play around with it. Maybe I can upgrade 
the CPU or the RAM!? If you get more information about it please tell me. 

Best regards
Ronny  

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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 
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> Webseite: www.ronnywisor.de
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