[Server-devel] Server-devel Digest, Vol 78, Issue 28

[David Farning]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Tony Anderson <tony at olenepal.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I looked at the Compulab website and the Trim-slice H is no longer offered.
> All
> links to Trim-slice now go to Utilite. I was only able to find one vendor in
> the UK
> which offered the Trim-slice for 208 pounds.
>
> I suspect that the Trim-slice has gone out of production.

Yes, that is the situation.

> Perhaps, David Farning can check this out. Maybe we could work a deal to buy
> remaining inventory.

I'll give it a shot. These guys are pretty lean :)

I also suggest contacting public forum at
http://www.utilite-computer.com/forum/ They are trying hard to build a
reputation of being hacker friendly.

This round we we not able to promise enough unit sales for them to
adjust their priorities to include a SATA connection for rotating
drives. I'll nudge again in January to see if they can do a hardware
update some time in the first quarter of 2014.

> Tony
>
> On 10/24/2013 09:00 AM, server-devel-request at lists.laptop.org wrote:
>>
>> Message: 7
>> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 22:42:23 -0700
>> From: Anish Mangal<anish at activitycentral.com>
>> To: Alex Kleider<akleider at sonic.net>
>> Cc: server-devel<server-devel at lists.laptop.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Supported Hardware Architectures
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>> Does the $100 model have an enclosure for the hard drive? (even if the
>> hard
>> drive itself is not present)
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Alex Kleider<akleider at sonic.net>  wrote:
>>
>>> >On 2013-10-23 13:04, Martin Dluhos wrote:
>>> >
>>>>
>>>> >>For the upcoming 0.5 release, we will be targeting the following
>>>> >> hardware
>>>> >>architectures:
>>>> >>
>>>> >>* Trim-Slice
>>>> >>* XO-1.5, XO-1.75, X0-4
>>>> >>* i386
>>>> >>* x86_64
>>>> >>
>>>> >>Feel free to provide XSCE support for other architectures, but these
>>>> >> are
>>>> >>the
>>>> >>ones we believe are most useful to the user community.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>Martin
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>>>>
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>>>> >>
>>>
>>> >
>>> >FYI and FWIW:
>>> >The price of the Trim-Slice is now down to US$100 (plus shipping.)
>>> >(Without a hard drive which most would probably want to replace with a
>>> >larger one anyway.)
>>> >
>
>



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