Seeking folks with Whistle InterJets
An InterJet running on its internal UPS battery, and a coffee cup (not included)
Inside the first-gen InterJet - mainboard plugs into a backplane along the bottom.
Hey, I'm looking for others who still have these 486-based SOHO all-in-one Internet appliances from the late 90s based on FreeBSD 2.2.x -- the Whistle InterJet from Whistle Communications, later acquired by IBM (whose son said it a couple years later, and sold off the whistle.com domain). InterJets were resold by participating ISPs in the US, Europe, and Asia, including being pretty popular in Japan for a time. I'm building an exhaustive resource (and tailoring modern NetBSD to run on it), and need volunteers with hardware to catalog hardware and software variants, track down ephemera, etc. I'm in contact with the guy who posted in r/battlestations 6 years ago, the guy who ran the InterJet Upgrade shop in that era, and Famicoman (who has the earliest known OS) ... and looking for others, anybody we can find!
Rough website with a deluge of info here, in all its 1995-grade (but secretly HTML5) "glory":
https://www.alaska.net/~royce/interjet/
Comments welcome -- this platform is endangered, especially the software it came with, which is on 30-year-old IDE drives with dwindling survival rates!