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Free Mailstation - modification challenge
I recently picked up an earthlink mailstation at officemax for the
sweet price of $30, with a $30 mail in rebate. The thing is pretty snazy, with a fat monochrome LCD, and a compact keyboard. The problem is, all it is good for is sending email, and to do that you have to sign up with earthlink. My challenge is this: is it possible to modify it to make it useful? They are free, so everyone pick one up and start experimenting! im not very skilled with this sort of thing, but one idea i has was: use the current lcd controller and screen, and the keyboard, but remove the rest of the circuitry and use like a z80 processor or something and basically have a z80 powered laptop. think of the potential, add a pcmcia interface, an IDE bus; i don't know how plausible this is, but the freaking things are FREE so it would be sweet to make something useful out of em. btw, if they arent free in your area, i wouldnt spend any money on em. wait till they go on sale, itll happen |
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Free Mailstation - modification challenge
you'd probably be better off trying to write some kind of code that will
fool the earthstation into thinking its communicating with earthlink, but infact pulling your actual email account... i used to sell these things, they would be cool if it wasnt for the only for earthlink problem "fred the owl" wrote in message om... I recently picked up an earthlink mailstation at officemax for the sweet price of $30, with a $30 mail in rebate. The thing is pretty snazy, with a fat monochrome LCD, and a compact keyboard. The problem is, all it is good for is sending email, and to do that you have to sign up with earthlink. My challenge is this: is it possible to modify it to make it useful? They are free, so everyone pick one up and start experimenting! im not very skilled with this sort of thing, but one idea i has was: use the current lcd controller and screen, and the keyboard, but remove the rest of the circuitry and use like a z80 processor or something and basically have a z80 powered laptop. think of the potential, add a pcmcia interface, an IDE bus; i don't know how plausible this is, but the freaking things are FREE so it would be sweet to make something useful out of em. btw, if they arent free in your area, i wouldnt spend any money on em. wait till they go on sale, itll happen |
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Free Mailstation - modification challenge
I have a mailstation and was planning a mod. I want to connect the kbd. to
my PC. I got the thing opened, and noticed that there was nothing standard in there. I am assuming that this is not a simple matter of addapting the kbd to the electrinics from a full sized kbd. Any pointers, ya'll? tia,everybody! |
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Free Mailstation - modification challenge
Accually, whom ever sends me five bucks first can have the rest of the
MailStation. email me at micapfine at juno dot com |
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Free Mailstation - modification challenge
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 07:08:21 -0700, FinePC wrote:
Accually, whom ever sends me five bucks first can have the rest of the MailStation. I saw them new for $10 before $10MIR at CompUSA... -- Lenroc |
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