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1000 unit co-op for Gateway flat pannel AOL terminal. (modified 0 times) wordsmith Profile Everyone interested, Please check out my on going mails with this guy who has 1000 units avail. for purchase. No set price at this moment. http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=bnews&Post=376&Idle=0&Sort=0&Order=Descend&Page=0&Session=wordsmith.98701987446135 * WordsmitH 04-11-2001 13:23:37

RE:1000 unit co-op for Gateway flat pannel AOL terminal. (modified 0 times) * StarFish * Profile ######################################################### (self Censored) What is the Screen Res ? What Makes this as Good or better than an I-Opener ? Looking for a Deal ? Have You seen This Thread Panasonic Toughbook CF-01 04-11-2001 16:27:38

RE:1000 unit co-op for Gateway flat pannel AOL terminal. (modified 0 times) GWIZAH Profile | Email Hey wordsmith, you stole my thunder!! Well I have some links if anybody wants specific regarding this thing. Views of the product (doesnt it look just like the "new" I-opener design???) A cnn article on the device. A linux devices article describing the device (Yes, it runs Linux!) Another ZDNET article Count me in, pending price. I'd be willing to go up to $250-300 range. 04-11-2001 17:28:18

RE:1000 unit co-op for Gateway flat pannel AOL terminal. (modified 0 times) hamilton Profile From ZDNET article: ==== The PC maker, in partnership with Internet giant America Online Inc. and chip makers Broadcom Corp. and Transmeta Corp., became the latest PC manufacturer to enter the Net appliance race. ==== Which Transmeta chip/speed does this use /? 04-11-2001 18:48:41

RE:1000 unit co-op for Gateway flat pannel AOL terminal. (modified 0 times) GWIZAH Profile | Email According to the Linux devices article "The Gateway Connected Touch Pad is based on a 400 MHz Transmeta 3200 microprocessor," So Im guessing its running at 400Mhz. 04-11-2001 19:50:10

RE:1000 unit co-op for Gateway flat pannel AOL terminal. (modified 0 times) wordsmith Profile I will check with the guy to see Pricing, and also what type of OS is REALLY installed. I think its still LINUX w/AOL embedded in it. Sorry GWIZAH. hehe. * WordsmitH 04-11-2001 20:02:55

RE:1000 unit co-op for Gateway flat pannel AOL terminal. (modified 0 times) wordsmith Profile Heres a mail I just sent: >>Greg, >>Just to let you know I come from a very popular I-Appliance BBS >>board on turning defunct I-Appliances into working Linux PCs. >>Perhaps you have heard of the famous I-Opener project? Depending >>on the price, I might have a person all ready for 400 - 500 units. >>Could you give me a ball park figure on the pricing for: >><100 units, 100-250 units, 250-500 units please? >>As we speak about 10 could be used depending on the price. If its >>a decient price, there might be a very good sale coming your way >>depending on what's inside of this machine. >>Do you have anything pertaining to the insides of this neat little >>Gateway machine? I.E. Hardware Info like how the OS is installed >>into it, etc. >>Thank you ever so much. >>Mike. ** ALSO, CAN WE KEEP ALL THE COMMENTS, ETC, ON THIS THREAD SO I DONT HAVE TO BOUNCE BACK AND FORTH PLEASE. * WordsmitH 04-11-2001 20:16:23

RE:1000 unit co-op for Gateway flat pannel AOL terminal. (modified 0 times) wordsmith Profile Well he wrote back with a telephone number. Anyone know where this area code if for? (770)335-XXXX * WordsmitH 04-11-2001 23:04:05

RE:1000 unit co-op for Gateway flat pannel AOL terminal. (modified 0 times) smigs Profile I believe it is Atlanta, Ga. His only reply was a number? Good Luck! I hope we can get a good price! 04-11-2001 23:25:11

RE:1000 unit co-op for Gateway flat pannel AOL terminal. (modified 0 times) Steve Profile | Email Try this reverse phonebook: http://www.freeality.com/reverse.htm That'll give you an idea if it's an unlisted number, a business name, etc. area codes: http://decoder.americom.com/ http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/bsy/area.html http://www.areacode-info.com/ 04-12-2001 04:32:09

RE:1000 unit co-op for Gateway flat pannel AOL terminal. (modified 0 times) wordsmith Profile All the long distance phone calls for this! Hah. No deal is ever good! Well he wants 450.00 per unit in the 0-200 bracket, and 425.00 for 201-500. There is no way he will come down on it. He did inform me that you can do any OS becuase of its Flash ROM. Well Duh! Sorry guys, I really tried to make this work. You have no clue how much I wanted in on those babies. If anyone wants his e-mail address and/or telephone number mail me at: unixwordsmith AT yahoo dot com * WordsmitH 04-12-2001 10:00:03

RE:1000 unit co-op for Gateway flat pannel AOL terminal. (modified 0 times) BubbaDog56 Profile That guy is smokin' the good stuff if he's looking for those prices for quantity buys. Have patience, let him know when he's really ready to deal to give you a call. It'll be a long time comin' for him to off 1000 of these things on eBay in single unit quantities. He's losing value every day another Internet Appliance hits the streets. The longer he has them, the less they're worth on the market.... B'Dog 04-12-2001 14:08:56

RE:1000 unit co-op for Gateway flat pannel AOL terminal. (modified 0 times) GWIZAH Profile | Email WTF? $450? This guy obviously does not know that for $450 (and some hacking skillz) u can get an I-o with a touchscreen running at 450 MHz (or higher) WITH a hard drive! . Tell this guy to check out this BBS and the see what HE says. Think about it: I-opener: between $99-$150 on Ebay AMD K6-2: about $35 (if you're lucky you can snag a k6-3 for about $100) Touchscreen: $150 Various modifications and options $100-$200 All in all you can build a system just as powerful for about $450. 04-12-2001 17:47:15

Will he get $450? I wouldn't be surprised... (modified 0 times) NormConquest Profile | Email The thing is practical and useful particularly for nonhackers. The parts alone are worth near that much to hackers. And I'd be surprised if Gateway let them go much below cost. They do, after all, have an OK refurb channel of their own If I had 1000 of these, I would probably hold my price and sit on them for a while. Toss a few on ebay and look to see where the price settles. If he's already running a retail business, costs are minimal. Audreys don't compete in the same ballpark. If the long-awaited i-openers ever hit the market, I'd re-think. Hell, look at the prices epods were going for at the height of the fever! 04-12-2001 20:12:28

RE:1000 unit co-op for Gateway flat pannel AOL terminal. (modified 0 times) wordsmith Profile Now is somebodies chance to get one for $200.00! Sorry for this post in the wrong section, But I want to see whats inside of these babies. Here the auction for someone whos got the money: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1228298077 23hrs remaining at this post time. * WordsmitH 04-12-2001 20:37:34

RE:1000 unit co-op for Gateway flat pannel AOL terminal. (modified 0 times) ttn1 Profile | Email Just in case any one hasn't checked, these things are $499 at gateways website. My guess is that this guy worked out a deal with his local gateway for quantity buys. That's more than likely why he won't come down on his price. Although, it says AOL subscription required. Not sure exactly what that means. ttn2 04-13-2001 05:37:45

RE:1000 unit co-op for Gateway flat pannel AOL terminal. (modified 0 times) eddavis Profile Well, it looks like someone picked that one up at eBay for $250. So either that's a scam or his price will come down quite a bit (or I'm reading it wrong). 04-13-2001 06:13:39

RE:1000 unit co-op for Gateway flat pannel AOL terminal. (modified 0 times) ttn1 Profile | Email My guess would be that he bought one and wanted to get rid of it. The 1000 he claims to have were probably just going to be a quantity buy from gateway. With a nice tidy profit for himself of course. This is a complete guess though. I would suggest that we check gateway to see if they give discounts for quantity buys, and what the prices are. I'm sure no one would like the price until it was in the $200 range, which probably isn't going to happen. I could see spending $400 on one of these, if I knew I could get a hard drive in it like the IO. An already integrated touchscreen would be quite nice. ttn2 04-13-2001 08:09:22

RE:1000 unit co-op for Gateway flat pannel AOL terminal. (modified 0 times) geekgranny Profile Howdy all, I've been "tied up". I sort of pooped out on CF-01 info... only had time to turn it on and play for a bit. AOL/Gateway web pad on eBay from same guy has a "reserve met" bid of $300. It has been at that for a day now (seems like longer) with the first bid at starting price and only two bids. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1228864137 If no one else bids on it maybe seller will start to get the message that very few people are willing to pay any more for it. Remember that current winning bidder may have a proxy bid that is higher than $300 so if anyone makes small bids to check out how high his bid goes it will give message to seller that other people are interested. We DON'T want that. BTW.... the one that was listed earlier and went for $250 "buy it now" price was listed by another seller and was slightly used. Be well all, "Ah crapola....sorry for the multiple posts..." (Greenspark) THEGeekGranny-epodsgranny@hotmail.com 04-16-2001 04:44:37

RE:1000 unit co-op for Gateway flat pannel AOL terminal. (modified 0 times) LiquidCyanide Profile What everyone needs to do is not buy these for above a certain price, if we all stick together they will realize that we wont pay a large sum of money. 04-18-2001 21:03:08

RE:1000 unit co-op for Gateway flat pannel AOL terminal. (modified 0 times) BubbaDog56 Profile Folks, We may start negotiating a group buy of the Gateway units originally covered in this thread, if interested read and post your quantity wanted in this thread: http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=bnews&Post=381&Idle=0&Sort=0&Order=Descend&Page=0&Session=bubbadog56.98768745073960 B'Dog 04-19-2001 06:54:16

RE:1000 unit co-op for Gateway flat pannel AOL terminal. (modified 0 times) chiron Profile Count me in for one if it is 200 or less. :) 04-19-2001 18:27:41

RE:1000 unit co-op for Gateway flat pannel AOL terminal. (modified 0 times) BubbaDog56 Profile Folks, Please post to the thread listed two messages up rather than this one, so we have a central point of focus for this. That thread is also where current discussions are ongoing, thanks.... B'Dog 04-19-2001 18:45:59

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