Date:         Fri, 12 May 2000 17:12:50 -0500
Reply-To:     Marshall Ruskin <mruskin@PANGEA.CA>
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From:         Marshall Ruskin <mruskin@PANGEA.CA>
Subject:      Re: I-Opener and GPS: How goes it?
Comments: To: "Joe L." <jliasse@TOAST.NET>
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Yes - there is a little progress with my IOpener. I am going to put it in my
VANAGON.

1.    My IOpener has been delivered to its "transfer point" in the US (as
they do not sell/ship to Canadian destinations;

2.    I have the correct cable to connect a laptop HD to the IDE connector
in the IOpener;

3.    I have a notebook HD to desktop HD adapter;

4. I have the image of the original OS, the original Bios, a special QNX
bios flashing program etc - all the essentials to do the hack (purely in SW
now, BTW)

5.    Somebody stole my notebook HD from work ( I just noticed it today);

6.    The IOpener should arrive in the next week or so from the US.

Hope y'all found this to be interesting.

FWIW, if you can buy an IOpener from CompUSA or Circuit City, without
signing up a "Terms of Service" contract DO IT! It's the best $99.00 you'll
spend.

They have made a few changes to the product to make it "unhackable", but
it's actually gotten easier, as experience and numbers of users doing it has
grown.

Marshall Ruskin
84 Westy

>     The talk about GPS reminded me that there were a few folks here who
>were going to get one of the "I-Opener" web machines and modify it for use
>with GPS.
>   Any updates on the project from anyone?
>