I used a Netpliance i-Opener as my main system, bridging the time between selling my B&W G3 400 PowerMac and ordering a PowerMac G4 Dual 800.

I got in before they changed the terms of service, so paid $99 and done. Upgraded it to a WinChip 2, added a serial port, ethernet, and a little HD for storage. Good times, that summer.

There's an amusing story of the company calling and trying to get me to pay out due to the binding contract they told me they had retroactively applied to all sold units. lol

https://bytecellar.com/2013/04/23/i-opener-the-internet-appliance-that-was-made-to-be-hacked/

#Netpliance #iOpener #WinChip #X86 #IDT #CPU #retrocomputing #maybe #internet #internetappliance #windows98 #blog #blogpost

TBH, I think the #CopilotKey is worse than the #PizzaKey because #Netpliance #iOpener didn't force that shit onto other users.

• Seriously, who gave #Microsoft consent to fucking around with #KeyboardLayouts like that? Literally NOONE asked for this!

Simply because one doesn't expect that #Internet #Terminal to be used as a #desktop.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USQxZc9nmtE via @lazygamereviews

Remember the #iOpener?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvlCM9bnhMo

#technology #hardware #hacking #netpliance #internetAppliance

Yeah, that's some major fuckup in terms of #DRM:

#iOpener from #Netpliance was trivial to #mod into being a #Windows #PC...

Seriously, had these things been sold in #Germany and had I been 15 years older at the time, I would've convinced my father to by a dozen, let me mod them and resell them with a huge profit margin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvlCM9bnhMo&t=1115s