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Date:      Fri, 27 Dec 2002 16:11:10 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        David Cuthbert <dacut@kanga.org>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: root on InterJet II
Message-ID:  <3E0CEC1E.1ABF3523@mindspring.com>
References:  <20021222181317.10A2543EDC@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <3E088426.77703337@mindspring.com> <3E0A9A13.80007@kanga.org>

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David Cuthbert wrote:
> Terry Lambert wrote:
> > Since you can't legally own an InterJet II, since they were
> > never sold, only leased, except in Japan, and your email
> > address is not Japanese, I expect that you have a stolen unit.
> 
> Hm.  Sounds like they were EOLed quite awhile ago, which means they
> should be hitting the surplus market, no?

No.  Like Apple Newtons, there's a bigger tax advantage to crushing
them and putting them in a landfill (50 cents on the dollar) to
selling them on the surplus market (30 cents on the dollar).


> At any rate, they sound like an interesting application for FreeBSD.
> I'm curious as to how well they performed...

Quite well.  But I'm biased.  So's Archie, and so's Julian.  8-).

-- Terry

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