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
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