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Old 02-09-2008, 02:40 PM   #16
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Yeah figured I was getting ahead of myself but I thought there may have been rumors floating around that I hadn't seen.

It has been thought about though the $20.00 price tag would seem a little over optimistic.
http://www.olpcnews.com/content/eboo...ok_reader.html
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Yeah figured I was getting ahead of myself but I thought there may have been rumors floating around that I hadn't seen.

It has been thought about though the $20.00 price tag would seem a little over optimistic.
http://www.olpcnews.com/content/eboo...ok_reader.html
Well certainly not the selling price if that is what you mean.
http://www.martin-woodhouse.co.uk/page76aa.html

clearly shows it is the build cost for quantity 1 million and up. This does not include any software. Still it is ambitious. Following the links shows an interesting reading software that is basically a dos executable. Probably not too many best sellers would be in that format .

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clearly shows it is the build cost for quantity 1 million and up. This does not include any software. Still it is ambitious. Following the links shows an interesting reading software that is basically a dos executable. Probably not too many best sellers would be in that format .

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I'm sure it was ahead of its time, but I find the format laughable, now. How much longer will most people be able to run a DOS executable? I can't and I'm running XP. (The file I need is broken.)
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clearly shows it is the build cost for quantity 1 million and up. This does not include any software. Still it is ambitious. Following the links shows an interesting reading software that is basically a dos executable. Probably not too many best sellers would be in that format .

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I'm sure it was ahead of its time, but I find the format laughable, now. How much longer will most people be able to run a DOS executable? I can't and I'm running XP. (The file I need is broken.)
I can, and I'm running XP, too.

But it assumes an Intel X86 CPU, and I couldn't find anything that talked about how you got content into Illumination format.

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I was able to run and display inventor on my XP system. I opened a CMD window and then installed the download. If made a folder called bedtime on the drive of my choice and inside the folder I changed to Inventor and then ran the inventor.bat file. Lo and behold it turn my cmd window into full screen and displayed the book. What a blast from the past. It is the same book you can read on the web using a browser.

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