a peculiar use for an eBookwise 1150

[bart_simpson]

I got another one of these devices and stuck some new batteries in it to see what was there and I discovered that it had been used by the Louisville Courier-Journal to schedule newspaper deliveries.

There were no books just a bunch of lists of numbers and addresses and when I tried to connect it to impserve (over USB) it kept trying to register at some defunct courier-journal site. (If you run impserve from the command line, it shows what is happening when you connect the 1150.)

It works fine if you put imps on a smartmedia card, but I wonder if there is a way to factory reset so I can use impserve or REBlibrarian?

I tried erasing Internal and "refurbish," from the (secret) info menu accessed by starting up while holding the lower big button, but it still just tries to register with the courier journal site. It's on FW 4.2.something.