Date:         Sat, 5 Jan 2002 17:01:15 -0800
Reply-To:     Bassim Dowidar <handfulofdimes@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Bassim Dowidar <handfulofdimes@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: in dash MP3 player??
Comments: To: KENWILFY@AOL.COM
In-Reply-To:  <12f.a55136e.2968f8cb@aol.com>
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Ken,

This sounds like a great idea! Is this a portable
(laptop) computer? How are you powering it? Does it
hook right up to the speaker system in the Van or do
you need special adaptors etc? How Are you going to
mount it? The devil, as usual, is in the details.


B 'the B' D
--- KENWILFY@AOL.COM wrote:
> I finally got around to hacking my I-Opener over the
> Christmas and New Year
> holidays.  This is a 200 mhz computer that cost me
> $100 from Circuit City.
> It was all the buzz about a year and a half ago.  I
> bought an $80 3 gig hard
> drive and a $16 bios chip (needed to hack the
> machine) and now we are in
> business.  So I am into it a total of $196 and have
> a MP3 player with a color
> 11" screen that you could also use as a GPS (I
> already have the GPS software
> and unit from Delorme), a websurfer, or whatever
> else you could want to use a
> computer for except for probably intense computer
> gaming (I could put my
> Nintendo emulator and all my Roms on there for old
> fashioned Nintendo fever
> when the mood strikes).  If you want to check out
> what is going on with these
> here is a link http://www.linux-hacker.net/.  You
> can still find these units
> on ebay from time to time and the hack was pretty
> easy.  If you get a version
> 4 or 5 it is basically as easy as popping out the
> bios chip and popping in a
> new one, then adding the hard drive.  Now my only
> question is, how do I mount
> it?
>
> Thanks,
> Ken Wilford
> Van-Again
> John 3:16
> http://www.vanagain.com
> Office: (856)-765-1583
> Fax: (856)-327-2242


=====
Lay on Macduff!
and Damn'd be him who first cries
                                Hold, Enough!

                                            -Macbeth

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