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 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> I think it´s a BeIA Computer? Does anyone know something about this? >> >> >> >> Best regards >> >> Ronny Wisor >> >> __________________________________ >> >> Webseite: www.ronnywisor.de >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> >> >