compact flash to ide adapter? that is a brilliant thinking out of the box
solution!

if i where to shitcan the hardrive on my hp800ct, i'd bet that i'd have
everything i want at that point

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> > Yes.  The suspend/resume has a few differnet power savings mode.  The
> > highest power saving mode is closed to us at the moment because
> > exiting it jumps to a ROM address (at least on the Vr machines).  This
> > just might be possible to fix, but it may be hard.  I've not examined
> > the memory in question.
> >
> > Booting is likely going a lot harder because each device has its own
> > "frob the hardware to a sane state" code that we'd have to write.
> >
> > Also, there's an issue with physical placement of parts.  The flash
> > chips and mask programable roms have different pinouts, last time I
> > looked.
>
> I think we'd really need some help from IBM in order to get this thing to a
> really fun state; and they have virtually no incentive to do this (not more
> than a handful of people would benefit, since it's an end-of-life product).
>
> as it stands, a 'modern' replacement for a z50 would probably be something
> like a Sony Picturebook, or an IBM X-series laptop. if one replaced the
> spinning drives with a solid state one (cheapest route is probably to get a
> CF->IDE adapter) it should really increase battery life.
>
> http://www.sonystyle.com/vaio/picturebook/index.shtml
>
> cool thing about this is that it's x86-based, so there's no
> architecture hassles when compiling code, power management is
> better-understood; and it boots anything natively, that can boot on x86.
>
> Carl Soderstrom.
>

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