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This is what proxies are for. Assuming it supports proxies. It would of course be wholly untrustworthy as it's likely vulnerable to a whole host of functional middling exploits.
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Thanks, I'll have a dig in the basement then I guess! Is the bootloader code open source?
Indeed it is/was, though I cannot seem to find an original copy on the internet, so I uploaded to the repository[0]. I'm not sure what the requisite toolchain is, though. [0]: https://repository.deuill.org/hp6xx/misc/jshlo-1.1.0-CE-2.11...
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HP had internal versions of the Jornada 72[0,8] that used flash instead of mask ROM, they could run the handhelds.org distribution of Linux.
Any chance of having one of said flash boards? Or the design files?
The early iPAQ models had Windows CE in flash, so you could easily overwrite it. Back then NetBSD didn't have a flash filesystem so NetBSD/hpcarm just booted from WinCE and ran in RAM.
The handhelds.org distribution was a DEC/Compaq/HP project that initially targeted their Itsy [1] device, then added support for their commercial products as they were released. Later they allowed external contributions too. They build an iPAQ sleeve that contained accelerometers to be able to carry on the UI development from the Itsy, you scrolled the screen by tilting the device. Their Linux kernel did have a fair bit of power management built in.