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Date:         Sat, 5 Jan 2002 20:56:44 -0500
Reply-To:     Walt Spak <wnsopc3@3RDM.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Walt Spak <wnsopc3@3RDM.NET>
Subject:      Re: in dash MP3 player??
Comments: To: KENWILFY@AOL.COM
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Now here is a side of Ken Wilford that I never knew

Walt Spak Pittsburgh, PA. wnsopc3@3rdm.net

----- Original Message ----- From: <KENWILFY@AOL.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 7:48 PM Subject: Re: in dash MP3 player??

> 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


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