Some of the techs at
Atlantic Internet
bought the new IOpeners from Netpliance. Between two of them they managed
to snag four of the devices from a
CompUSA up in West
Palm Beach (the ones in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale being sold out
already).
They're neat devices, out of the box and given a tutorial in less than 30
seconds—a true appliance. And tiny.
The devices they got were the “non-modifiable” ones. Which in essence
means they expoxied a modified BIOS to the mother board that doesn't boot
from a harddrive. The IDE connector was not clipped.
One of the techs was there at the office for hours trying to get the
existing software to dial up to Atlantic Internet with little success.
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