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New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) r0de Scovery 211 http://www.egghead.com/category/inv/00000331/02977860.htm Neat little linux terminal that can be turned in to a normal computer. 06-07-2000 20:25:41

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) New toy? Monitor not included. 06-07-2000 22:00:12

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) Smrf_Slyr Looks like Ken S might have gone over there and bid on two of them to see what he can do to them... KS of North Las Vegas, NV, USA Thu Jun 8, 10:17 am $124.00 It's like one of those Book PC's that are going for around $189 around the web? -Smrf_Slyr 06-08-2000 10:43:39

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) silver944 with 4 megs of flash doing the linux, it taint linux. white dwarf or neutrino perhaps, but not a standard distro. (again most likeliy qnx) 06-08-2000 12:04:18

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) CheezeWiz Sounds like the box as is, boots via network, thats why the boot ROM for the network. Looks like those boxes might go for about $150 each after shipping cost. For that kind of money, you can easily pick up an all-in-one motherboard, same CPU or faster, 64meg and case for about the same or less. Only the slim case might be a little more difficult to find. 06-08-2000 12:18:17

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) force Code: QUICK999 works for me..... That's for free shipping... got it for $129 shipped ... I figure that's a pretty good deal... Motherboard and CPU = $50 Memory 64MB = $50 Keyboard & Mouse = $10 Case & Power supply = $20 We'll see what this baby can do.... =) 06-08-2000 14:12:45

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) r0de For those that dont know, the scovery 212 has a K6-2 300 some say 400, so for $32 more you can add another cpu. I believe that is the only difference between the 211 and the 212. Search there yahoo/altavista, you can see the specs of the others. Btw anyone been able to find a review of one of these things? 06-08-2000 14:48:23

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) bobm Interesting, the thing is gone from egghead. The search shows it but you can't get to the page. Oh well. On the lighter side, Frys is selling iphones for $189, they're the single line model. I just can't find anything about them anywhere. There aren't any ports and the single line version has a 14.4k modem (ugh). 06-08-2000 16:02:00

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) r0de search for scovery on eggheads web page, they are seeling more. 06-08-2000 16:17:43

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) spank I found none for sale at Egghead but in auction from Egghead at Onsale.com. http://www.onsale.com/category/inv/00050605/02977861.htm Here is the site with the specs on the units. They have several. http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/en/scovery/scovery210.html Spank 06-08-2000 18:03:23

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) r0de Look harder. http://www.egghead.com/category/inv/00050605/02977861.htm It easy to find, just use the search. 06-08-2000 21:34:12

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) Maybe??? Is this the one we are talking about??? Cant find it on Egghead... http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/en/scovery/index.html 06-09-2000 11:26:00

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) codeman Profile | Email ok i got my 2 scovery's yesterday here is a quick run down .. 1st of all it's a cool little machine specs win chip c6 200 (same as i-opener) 64 mb ram 16 mb sandisk 100base-t ati rage video keyboard & mouse usb 2 pci slots no sound room for cdrom/floppy/hd (have to remove sandisk board to mount floppy) also the sandisk is on its own board with a ide header on it you can remove it . talk about a cool way to re flash you iopener ! the linux works good it boots in i X and has netscape 4.0? i pluged it into my network and set the ip dns ect and was on the net very cool machine.. will add a web page for it tonight codeman 06-14-2000 11:18:01

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) CheezeWiz Looks like Ken just won a bid for 2 more. Can't wait until mine gets here... 06-14-2000 13:02:01

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) force Profile Like codeman said, the sandisk is located where the floppy drive would be. I just unscrew it and screw it on the other side, right underneath the floppy. Now, my scovery got a HD, CDrom drive, floppy and the sandisk... I think the sandisk need to be primary master to work properly (to boot to linux) pretty cool machine... I think I am going to try codeman ideas about using the sandisk to reflash the bios of io 06-14-2000 19:53:41

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) It's very boring Yawn......Ok What's next...... 06-16-2000 02:17:32

Hmm (modified 0 times) thnkgrn Should be having mine UPS'd in the next day or so. I saw the backplane has knockouts for sound. Has anybody tried to populate the chipset for it, or is it just a generic case? The IO hack was so much fun, but I am 'jones-ing' a little. Maybe we are looking to hard for the next hack. Just my 2 cents worth. 06-19-2000 06:02:09

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) Easystreet Has anyone tried to upgrade the Winchip cpu and what did you use? 06-19-2000 12:41:20

Wireless keyboard (modified 0 times) NobodySpecial Those of you looking at the Scovery or Book PC may want to check out http://www.egghead.com/category/inv/00000232/03020415.htm - there are 450 (!) wireless keyboards with built-in touchpad up for auction. It uses RF so you don't have to worry about line-of-sight (i.e. you can hide the case). The auction ends Tuesday. Don't bid too high because justdeals.com is selling the same thing at http://home1.store.com/justdeals/html/cat27/main.html for $30 *including* shipping. 06-19-2000 18:10:43

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) El Barto The website says the CPU can go up to a K6-2 450. 06-20-2000 01:33:10

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) Thnkgrn Anybody have a free shipping code? Already used QUICK999. 06-20-2000 06:38:33

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) redwood yes, shipping kinda kills this, $14.50 each unit is rediculas... I got a keyboard sent across country USPS for $4.30 .. free shipping code? that would be nice...where do you find that? otherwise, 14.50 + 9.00, 23.50 vs 29.99 at justdeals... 6 bucks saveing... free shipping would be better, 06-20-2000 08:53:34

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) Thnkgrn Free shipping code. Try QUICK999 (earlier in postings). Also try AC722. I love the Internet. I just wished I had found it before I bid. 06-20-2000 09:39:34

This thing is sweet (modified 0 times) thnkgrn Just got mine. Quiet... quick... expandable... this rules. I wish we could get some of the REAL hardware hackers involved and see what a 'bear' it would be to populate the onboard sound (saving the PCI'). A very good value (especially with free shipping (smile)). A litle bigger than I was expecting. A hair larger than the Book PC, but a lot better expandability though. Peace 06-20-2000 09:42:54

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) reptar Ok, I'm in almost. What do i need to for the lcd panel ??? 06-22-2000 10:53:17

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) Easystreet http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=whatever&Post=1189&Idle=0&Sort=0&Order=Descend&Page=0&Session= Check out this I-opener thread about LCD screens.....duo 280c is mentioned. Is the screen on this able to connect to a Scovery? 06-22-2000 14:39:16

Great Machine (modified 0 times) MeToo This is a great little box, slapped a K6-2 450 in it, and a 20G 7200 rpm drive and using it for network file server. 06-24-2000 19:23:48

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) Easystreet Has anyone found the jumper settings for the CPU? I want to try an AMD K6-2 ???? AMD K6-2 450 works?,jumper settings? 06-25-2000 11:04:09

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) meToo it's on the CD that comes with it 06-25-2000 15:32:27

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) Jamesd1343 Anyone have a good site to buy the AMD k62 450 ? 06-28-2000 08:06:17

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) Frankenrichter Ok.. So is the consensus that we CAN make this thing run a K6-2 450 or not? I'm hearing conflicting reports! Inquiring minds want to know! I've noticed that over the last week, the Egghead auctions for these things has gone up considerably.. Last week, I believe they were selling for about $110 or so.. This week, it more like about $150... 06-28-2000 08:30:33

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) greghol Yep, got mine for $159 today. Wish I hopped on it a couple of weeks ago when they were going for about $130. People are hoarding them too! Greg 06-28-2000 16:55:06

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) WouldBeHacker Profile Frankenrichter, they work perfectly with a K6-450. Just make sure you get the 2.2v core version of the processor. Actually, I got a 475 2.4 v and set the board for 2.2 (it doesnt have a 2.4 setting) and it still worked (at 450 mhz) 06-30-2000 08:33:30

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) silver944 ref where to get a k6 - try www.pricewatch.com just be careful on the shipping costs. a $35 cpu with a $15 shipping cost is more expensive than a $40 cpu with a $7.50 shipping cost... 07-01-2000 16:39:53

IDE Q's ?? (modified 0 times) JamesD1343 hooked up a formatted sysed 3gb hard drive and got invalid partition table. also seem to have a problem ID-ing hard drives in the BIOS do I need to flash the BIOS to a newer version ? anyone have a link ? 07-06-2000 08:30:33

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) MeToo I've hooked up all kinds of drives with no problem, from 6 to 20 gb 07-08-2000 06:52:12

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) JamesD1343 MY IDIOCY ! partition not set to active. works nicely with the 450 ! 07-10-2000 08:10:48

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) gerg How about the K6-3 500? gerg 07-13-2000 02:24:46

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) gerg I mean the K6-2 500. gerg 07-13-2000 02:25:36

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) MeToo K6-2 500 works fine, but only at 450 Mhz. The jumpers only let you multiply to 4.5 (x 100) 07-13-2000 04:53:02

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) TooManyComputers The SCovery looked interesting so I bought one. Once I got it, I asked myself "What am I going to do with this thing?". Compgeeks has an older Creative Labs DVD drive and decoder inlay card ( works with ATI and I think it connects to the AMC connector on the SCovery ) for $59. I figured that for a little more than a DVD player, I can convert the SCovery into a DVD player : ). 07-13-2000 07:32:46

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) redwood ok, would anybody like to explain their solution for sound on this box? and were you able to make a DVD player, with surround sound? thanks for any usefull replies... 07-14-2000 08:15:57

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) Spdracer5g Any decent sound card should do fine. I am using a $30 aurreal that sounds great, but does not support surround. 07-14-2000 09:57:57

nic and win98 help (modified 0 times) reptar I installed a hd with win 98 on it and i cant get the nic to work right, is there a trick, ping seems to work but i can get it to find my sygate dsl pc. 07-18-2000 17:02:36

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) Madman My nic works just fine. I let win98 auto-detect it w/o problem. Running cable modem ok. 07-18-2000 17:56:12

RE:New toy, Scovery (modified 0 times) reptar you didnt try to install from scovery disk? maybe ill just reinstall windows... did you update anything? 07-18-2000 18:38:30

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