[ale] Zapmedia Zapstation

[James P. Kinney III]

Dead and gone with the dot com busts. If you hang a CD off the internal
IDE connector you should be able to boot and load an OS (Linux only -
please :) and make a multi-media box yourself with some MP3 jukebox code
from freshmeat. The built-in modem is/was a cheap hunk of crap that even
with the custom driver was junk at best (1+MB kernel driver that crashed
the system on unload - I did NOT write it just had to code around it).

You have a piece of dot-com history!

On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 22:45 -0400, Brian Pitts wrote:
> Does anyone have any information about these? There was discussion on 
> this list involving one of the chief developers, Michael Hirsch, when 
> they were released in 2001.
> 
> I've acquired and old unit (without the remote or keyboard that I 
> understand originally accompanied it) and it seems like an interesting 
> piece of hardware. When I turn it on, it gets to "loading stage 1 of 3" 
> then restarts. It does the same thing if I unhook the hard drive. So far 
> I haven't found a key combination for entering the BIOS.
> 
> http://www.ale.org/archive/ale/ale-2001-11/msg00126.html
> http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4964710304.html
> http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2002/09/02/story8.html?jst=s_cn_hl
> 
> -Brian
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James P. Kinney III          
CEO & Director of Engineering 
Local Net Solutions,LLC        
770-493-8244                    
http://www.localnetsolutions.com

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