[mythtv-users] Cheap Possible Frontend

[Mike Angstadt]

>
> > if it makes you feel any better, Micro$loth sold these consoles at a
> > loss intending to make it up on the sales of their games.  so any time
> > they are purchased with no intention of buying games you're "stickin'
> > it to the man". ;)
> > and if you buy it used with the intention of 'repurposing' the
> > hardware, well, you're still "stickin' it to the man"  :D
>
> Yes, in fact it does make me feel better, since Microsoft apparently
> lost that bet, I don't think they made a whole lot on games.
>
> Is this true of the X-Box 360 as well? They seem pretty pricey.
>
> Anyway, I received the little box that started this thread. One
> problem I see is that it has a standard 40-pin IDE connector on the
> mobo, but uses laptop-style drives.
>
> They included the adapter to use a laptop hard drive, but nothing to
> get from the 40/80 pin ribbon into the connector on a slim style
> laptop CD drive, anybody know where I could get such an adaptor ? It
> would obviously have to get both IDE and power into the drive connector.
>
> I can just connect a standard CD dirve to get the system loaded onto
> the hard drive, but of course that means I can't close the case,
> which I'd like to be able to do :-)



Yeah, I think I have one or two lying around :-P

You can probably pick them up at a Fry's or Microcenter or similar computer
store, though places like Circuit City etc don't carry them as far as I
know.