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New MessageHP 4000 Print Appliance (modified 0 times) peekitty
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LiveWarehouse has the HP 4000 Print Appliance for $25. It's a rack-mountable box with front panel LCD and appears to contain a National Semiconductor Geode processor, hard drive, and runs on the Linux kernel. It might make a good server appliance if it's hackable enough... Oh yeah, shipping is around $20 :(

http://store.yahoo.com/livewarehouse/nchp20120.html

07-03-2003 14:01:44

New MessageRE:HP 4000 Print Appliance (modified 0 times) zonyl
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266 Geode
64MB of Ram
5.2GB of harddrive
Linux 2.2
07-03-2003 21:23:57

New MessageRE:HP 4000 Print Appliance (modified 0 times) peekitty
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Thanks zonyl, where did you find that info? My googling turned up similar specs but in Polish, so I wasn't certain if it applied to this unit.
07-04-2003 08:50:27

New MessageRE:HP 4000 Print Appliance (modified 2 times) zonyl
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Fortunately, I speak Polish. Found some info on the news groups as well :)

Not sure if this device is worth the money though. No video, no sound, no serial, no ps2. LCD and a HD really.

07-04-2003 09:49:50

New MessageRE:HP 4000 Print Appliance (modified 0 times) pbrandonc00
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what about doing a linux install on a similar system, configure vnc, then swap the drive into the hp 4000, could be very useful as a networked storage system ,etc.
07-15-2003 21:09:27

New MessageRE:HP 4000 Print Appliance (modified 0 times) noyen
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Has anyone tried installing something other than linux on one of these? According to the specs the DB9 connector is a serial port which is capable of controlling a UPS. I'm more interested to find out whether the whole unit can run DOS and use the serial port as your standard COM1.

Too bad that company doesn't ship to Canada. Anyone care to send one my way?

07-18-2003 04:56:41

New MessageRE:HP 4000 Print Appliance (hackable) (modified 0 times) TivoTechie
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I picked up a couple of these devices... I'll try to take some pictures later this week and get them posted.

The device is running a 2.0.36 linux kernel and is basically a modified version of RedHat 5.2 running Samba, I made some quick config changes by pulling the disk and was able to put a couple of files into a samba share on the device and mount it from my laptop.

There are no ISA/PCI slots, nor is there video onboard... catting /dev/pci does show that there is a pci bridge on the board, as well as video, but i'm not a hardware guy, so I have no clue what to solder where to get it to work.

-TT

07-19-2003 07:10:11

New MessageRE:HP 4000 Print Appliance (modified 0 times) noyen
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Anyone find a source for these that will ship to Canada?
07-19-2003 19:10:23

New MessageRE:HP 4000 Print Appliance (modified 0 times) wfg97079
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Anyone find a use for these?
08-13-2003 10:20:29

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