[ale] zipit, dang man

Chris Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Fri Oct 16 14:13:17 EDT 2009


Does this thing have audio input an output.  I'm thinking of fldigi!

On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 14:01 -0400, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> Looks like the Zipit Z2 is sold out at local targets. I called 3 of
> 'em but the stock was gone.
> 
> They're still selling 'em on the site and on eBay at $50, but the $25
> *dealzzz* are gone.
> 
> For those of you who weren't at the meeting last night, the Zipit Z2
> is a handheld IM device that just barely 
> missed its market window ( http://www.zipitwireless.com/ , ignore
> irritating music..). Color screen, QWERTY keyboard, earphone jack,
> microscopic speaker, 8 MB of flash and 32 MB of SDRAM, a new-ish  ARM
> processor,  About the size and shape of a GBA.
> 
> Hackaday  has some instructions for loading your own linux kernel on
> it ( http://hackaday.com/?s=zipit ), and one of the intrepid folks at
> last night's meeting actually had one which was running fluxbox and
> connected to the wireless network 'n' everything. Even at $50 I'm sore
> tempted, but at $25 it would've been a complete no-brainer.  
> 
> -- CHS
> 
> 
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