I was a contractor to Netpliance Inc early in my student days. They kept charging people for service that slowly degraded to the point of clients not getting their email for months and being told to try getting a Hotmail account. Watched the share go to pennies, then the company imploded and then everyone on my contract got laid off. Important early life lessons about how loyal to be to your job and keeping your resume fresh. A priceless education you can't get in college.
Anyway, I _liberated_ an RMA'd Iopener, built a handmade IDE cable to connect to the funky pinout, added a disk and ran it at home as a music server and internet device (with a hacked Netzero dialup account, of course). Ah, those were the days.
Hell yeah, iopener represent. :)
I was a contractor to Netpliance Inc early in my student days. They kept charging people for service that slowly degraded to the point of clients not getting their email for months and being told to try getting a Hotmail account. Watched the share go to pennies, then the company imploded and then everyone on my contract got laid off. Important early life lessons about how loyal to be to your job and keeping your resume fresh. A priceless education you can't get in college.
Anyway, I _liberated_ an RMA'd Iopener, built a handmade IDE cable to connect to the funky pinout, added a disk and ran it at home as a music server and internet device (with a hacked Netzero dialup account, of course). Ah, those were the days.
Yep, remember the 3com Audrey, probably still have it in a box in my basement!