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Re: Cobalt Qube - anyone seen/used one?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Gaume)
Wed Oct 28 14:47:48 1998
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 19:28:18 +0000
From: Thomas Gaume <tom@flwireless.net>
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Actually I just got off the phone with Shawn Grissim at CorelComputer corp.
and the netwinder will be available in a 19" rackmount that's 1 U thick
(1.5" ? ) before the end of the year, actaully each mount is capable of
housing 2 netwinders.
Ramon Gandia wrote:
> Michael Jinks wrote:
>
> > The Corel NetWinder is similarly sized, similarly priced, and reportedly
> > faster (according to Corel). It also has both 10bT and 100bT ethernet;
> > IIRC, the Qube is only 10bT, but I may be wrong about that.
>
> The Cobalt RaQ has 10/100 ethernet.
>
> The Netwinder, from the ads I've seen in LJ, is the funkiest,
> most UNMOUNTABLE, unrackable thing I've ever seen. If they have
> a Rack Mount version they better advertise 'cause its the main
> reason I have not even considered one.
>
> That reminds of my next favorite pet peeve. Modems and other
> devices that can't even stack. Like the USRobotics Sporsters,
> or the WebRamp M3 which is rounded at the top. They even make
> network hubs that way. Hey, it may be okay for toasters, but
> I think computers should be boxy, vented out the BACK, and
> stackable within reason. Anything else is BS. Any takers on this
> opinionated statement?
>
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