Subject: Re: Netwinder - where from?
To: None <port-arm32@netbsd.org>
From: Sebastian Maus <maus@uni-mainz.de>
List: port-arm32
Date: 04/08/2002 09:39:33
* Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@buzzard.freeserve.co.uk> wrote (20020408 01:45):
> > Are Netwinders still manufactured?
> Sadly, I think not.

Not the 275 range (the ARMed versions), I'm afraid.

> > Where can they be found? What are the specs and average price?
> They were manufactured by Rebel.com.  They went belly up last year,
> but I think they'd stopped making the Netwinder by that point anyway.

Mine was made by Corel. Rebel started the versions with Transmeta chips.
They didn't sell many SA equipped units.
In central Europe, expect second hand prices in the (4.0+-1.0)E2 Euro
range. Liebhaberpreise.

> Basic specs were something like:
> 
> 275MHz SA110
> 32-128 MB Ram

32 MB SDRAM basic, 64 MB developer version (275 DM). 128 MB possible
with a lot of luck.

> 10G Disk (2.5in)

3 GB in all Corel machines, IIRC.

> Parallel/Serial port
> 1x100/10BaseT + 1x10BaseT Ethernet (ideal as a firewall machine).

Definitely!

> Builtin SVGA graphics.

Builtin internal microphone, line in, speaker, TV in/out. Even a modem
socket is present, although the corresponding chipset is said to be
broken (as is the CyberPro TV-in PCI bus master capability).
Beware: The fan is loud, and switching it off via software is no good
idea.

> R.

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