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    Media Bay Question/Ideas

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by kingstu, May 9, 2008.

  1. kingstu

    kingstu Notebook Consultant

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    I am looking at the media and wondering what sort of electronics can properly be run in it. I know there are Floppy Drive, LS Superdrives, Hard Disks, CD/DVD Drives, Secondary Batteries, Line Tester Modules and other custom things. Could they be modified easily support PCMCIA card reader or house bluetooth, GPS or anything else like that? I know that some IBM Media bays support legacy ports. Has anyone done any custom mods around the media bay? Just thinking deep thoughts on a Friday afternoon.
     
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    Well I think the operative word is "easily".... No, I don't think any custom mods can be done easily, which isn't to say they couldn't be done at all!
     
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  3. Toughbook

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    I don't know of anyone that has modded anything for the media bay... Too rich with contacts....
     
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    You can probably run anything you want in the media bay, but most can be done in an easier fashion with other ports.

    I still want to find one of those ATT line test modules.
     
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    like a dumba**, i could have bought one a while back but didn't.. i was too busy making fun of the seller for calling them "giblets"..
     
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    Ha! I would have no real purpose for it (That I know of) other than having it for my collection.
     
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    There were 2 on eBay recently. He wanted around $500 each! I wouldn't even know what it did, although the guys who did the phones at our new office had some pretty tricked out Itronx Go-Books. They hated the Go-Books, were drooling over my stack of CF-28's for the dredges.
     
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    Thats the main reason I didn't shell out the $50/ea for them.. It would probably turn out to be an interesting paperweight!
     
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    Grav, not to rub it in, but if you see anymore, he seems to have moved them out of his eBay store at $500 pretty quickly! Someone must need them.
     
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    I'm sure if you are in that industry the line tester modules are worth their weight in gold. But I'd like to have one just to have it. I wonder what interesting things I could do with it.
     
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    It is still worth a million for an outside plant construction or troubleshooting cable pairs of tel. lines on a third world countries. I worked for eigth years on this field and we are having difficulty of having this coz of it price of course with the toughbook instead we used only a dynatel 965 or Hp tester or just a megger tester just to verify the integrity of the lines.


    ohlip
     
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    I could be dead wrong but my guess is, without the proper software, not much. Which is the main reason why I opted not to buy the ones I could have bought.

    Of course, if I had known I could have resold them for profit.. :) they were "Sidekick Tempo" modules by the way.. I just went looking through my email history to see what they were called.
     
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    Yep, that's what they were called. What part of them was the seller referring to as "giblets"?
     
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    I think the tester modules themselves were the parts being referred to as "giblets"
     
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    Here's one for digital cable tv.
    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330175179081&ssPageName=MERC_VI_RSCC_Pr4_PcY_BIN_Stores_IT&refitem=330174679322&itemcount=4&refwidgetloc=active_view_item&usedrule1=StoreCatToStoreCat&refwidgettype=cross_promot_widget&_trksid=p284.m184&_trkparms=algo%3DDR%26its%3DS%252BI%252BSS%26itu%3DISS%252BUCI%252BSI%26otn%3D4
    These are like the serial dongles and radio data and video modems we use on the dredge, the peripherals are way more expensive than the computers themselves.
     
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    If only they made one for DeviceNet :)
     
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