My friends and I also picked up some Dreamcasts. Two May 2000, and a
Sept. 2000. We managed to boot the kernel, and mount a root filesystem
from a cd using the hpcsh snapshot. 

John

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Travis Geiselbrecht wrote:

> To add some data points:
> 
> I picked up a smash pack a couple of days ago and the DC is a September 2000
> prod unit. It boots just fine, CDR capability still there.
> 
> Travis Geiselbrecht
> geist@foobox.com
> 
> 
> > My roommate just picked up a $120 Smash Pack bundle. It is indeed a June,
> > 2000 production unit. Wow, the original Sonic still rocks. This reminds me
> > of a really old post on one of the Usenet emulator newsgroups. It was some
> > funny comment about how we build bigger, faster systems so we can better
> > emulate the old ones.
> 
> 
>