From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 27 16:12:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FA2B37B401 for ; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 16:12:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D583043E4A for ; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 16:12:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from rev208-187-98-122.wolsi.com ([208.187.98.122] helo=mindspring.com) by puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18S4af-0005L0-00; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 16:12:33 -0800 Message-ID: <3E0CEC1E.1ABF3523@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 16:11:10 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Cuthbert Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: root on InterJet II References: <20021222181317.10A2543EDC@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <3E088426.77703337@mindspring.com> <3E0A9A13.80007@kanga.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a45ef892cc3aaa1404ff2b201b3dd57c2da7ce0e8f8d31aa3f350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message