Re: [NTLK] More Pics of WALT

From: John Ruschmeyer (jruschme_at_comcast.net)
Date: Sat Oct 26 2002 - 09:40:04 EDT


The only thing that bothers me about the floppy connector is that, on a real
Duo, it would be on an expansion module, not the motherboard. That means
that WALT is either a custom motherboard or a PB100.

Personally, I'd love to see a couple of things:

        1) Any screenshots of software from the manual
        2) Whether it could be coaxed into booting from an external disk and, if
so,
                - Are the contents of the internal drive still accessible
                - What gestalt is returned by the WALT hardware

Hopefully, the winner of the auction will make that known to the world.

<<<john>>>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net
> [mailto:newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net]On Behalf Of Ashley Campbell
> Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 12:50 AM
> To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] More Pics of WALT
>
>
>
> The more I see of this baby, the more it looks like a Duo to me. Check
> out the crazy HDI (?) floppy connector next to the SCSI port. And the
> internal hard drive? I'd go as far as to say that I suspect that the
> pen just acts like the Macintosh mouse.
>
>
> On Friday, Oct 25, 2002, at 22:15 US/Eastern, Ken Rumsey wrote:
>
> >
> > Due to a massive number of requests, we have opened WALT and taken
> > pictures
> > of his inside, behind the access panel, and the hard drive. We have
> > also
> > taken pictures of 2 of the pages of the user manual. All of the pics
> > are now
> > on a new site. They can be seen at:
> >
> > http://www.cromaa.com/walt
> >
> > --
> > Ken

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