From owner-freebsd-small Tue Apr 11 22:36:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from loki.dyn.ez-ip.net (h24-66-207-153.xx.wave.shaw.ca [24.66.207.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F14437BA90 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:36:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neo@loki.dyn.ez-ip.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by loki.dyn.ez-ip.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA01022; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 23:36:05 -0600 From: dreamwvr Reply-To: dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com Organization: dreamwvr.com To: chad@DCFinc.com, "Chad R. Larson" , dirkx@webweaving.org (Dirk-Willem van Gulik) Subject: Re: Netpliance Iopener Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 23:31:43 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com, chip@eboai.org, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200004120500.WAA07692@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <200004120500.WAA07692@freeway.dcfinc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00041123360504.00722@loki.dyn.ez-ip.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, now your going the route that i would like to see.. through so if someone can locate the builder so i can contact them i will maybe do this exact thing.. but i would need help i would send one to 3 areas.. open *bsd projects that i appreciate and would like to see benefit. the others i would sell once i got it figured out that is .. since i am far from mr.hardware this could be quite challenging but i am willing to give it a try.. Best Regards, dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com > > Get a loan, order the couple of hundred with the same feature-set > (USB, 800x600 LCD, microphone, V.90 modem, Yamaha sound, etc.). > > Put a FreeBSD install floppy set into the flash memory, so it can do > a network install via dial-up PPP or the parallel-port IP. Sell > them here, or through the BSD Mall, or on the net, or via e-bay for > whatever you have to pay for them plus, say, 10 percent. > > Seriously. Worse case investment is 200 units times $500 = a > hunnert grand. If you can, indeed, sell them for cost + 10, you > make 10 thousand bucks, which should surely cover a couple of > weekends putting together the flash RAM image you'd need. > > Then, there's the service bureau. Make sure the image on the flash > is always able to do another net install. Put a modem on a FreeBSD > box at your house, offer up images with as many different feature > sets as you can imagine (X terminal, web browser, etc.) and let > folks fetch them for a fee. > > Or, see how much the manufacturer would nick you to replace the > flash with a real hard drive and sell them as a pseudo-laptop for > folks who only need a minimalist computer and don't have much room. > College kids and the like. Current lap-tops are =too= capable (and > consequently expensive) for the needs of a lot of folks. > > Get a quote, then check back here for your early market survey... > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message