Applicants submitted ideas for software applications or hardware modifications.
The groups are concerned that the Government will require ever more invasive hardware modifications to keep track of individuals.
Up to 551 kByte/s is possible with a minor hardware modification.
This included the production of 3rd party manuals, new sounds, training videos, and hardware modifications.
Other hardware modifications, like battery backed memory and disk drives were added, but the operation was small (only a two man team).
In summary, the main benefits of this approach are that it is easy to implement, low cost, and does not require special hardware modification.
Automatic-power-on behavior can't be achieved on the device without hardware modifications.
All three subcultures have relations to hardware modifications.
The only kind of widespread hardware modification nowadays is case modding.
Even the 1994 hardware released pre-V.34 was fully V.90-upgradeable without hardware modification.
