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Subject:Re: eWesty
From:Don Preston
Date:Tue, 8 Apr 2003 00:20:06 -0700

Congrats on the clean install. It looks great. Welcome to the Geek Side...

Don Preston
'87 Wolfy ASI GL
Redmond, WA
~Betsy the Mp3 Bus~

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Mark Belanger
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 4:11 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM

I threatened this way back in October, but now it's a reality...

Pokeswagen is no more!  From now on she shall be called eWesty!  She
features:

     - Music playback: FM/AM, CD, MP3, WMA
     - Movie playback: DVD, DIVX, Quicktime, WMA
     - GPS-based On-screen navigation
     - Speech synthesis-based driving directions
     - Speech recognition
     - Wireless internet access
           o Email access
           o Instant Messenger access
           o VPN (for work)
     - Full WinXP "functionality"
     - Wireless keyboard & gyroscopic mouse
     - Start/Hibernate on ignition

No, Stan, it does not have an 8-track, but it does have a kitchen
sink... <insert rim shot sound here>

My theory was that my '91 didn't have *enough* delicate systems and
wiring to break, so I should increase the complexity of it by an order
of magnitude.  Mission accomplished.

Details can be found here:

  http://evilbill.fluid.com/vanagon/ewesty/

Kudos to those of you who regularly document your work.  What a royal
pain in the ass it was to write that!

-MB
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Mark Belanger - belanger@fluid.com

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