In case anyone is interested:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Mint-boxed-Apple-Pippin-Development-System_W0QQitemZ5293877331QQcategoryZ1247QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Baret" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Vintage Macs" <vintage.macs@mail.maclaunch.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: Apple Pippin
Did Bandai develop the electronics in it? The last
time I heard anything about Bandai was back when Power
Rangers was the thing to watch. They made the action
figures and got really rich in the mid-90s. I didn't
know Bandai did electronics...
--- Arnel Tuazon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From Wikipedia:
"The Apple Pippin was a technology for a multimedia
title player (sometimes
mistakenly referred to as a games console ) designed
by Apple Computer in
the mid-1990s. It was based around a 66 MHz PowerPC
603e processor, and ran
a cut-down version of the Mac OS. The goal was to
create an inexpensive
computer aimed mostly at playing CD-based multimedia
titles, especially
games, but also functioning as a network computer.
It featured a 4x CD-ROM
drive and a video output that could connect to a
standard television
monitor.
Apple never intended to release its own Pippin.
Instead it intended to
license the technology to third parties, a model
similar to that of the
ill-fated 3DO. However the only Pippin licensee to
release a product to
market was Bandai.
By the time the Bandai Pippin was released, (1995
for Japan, 1996 for the
United States) the market was already dominated by
the Nintendo 64, Sony
PlayStation, and Sega Saturn, machines which were
much more powerful as game
machines than the more general purpose Pippin. In
addition, there was little
ready-to-go software for Pippin, the only major
publisher being Bandai
itself. Costing US$599 on launch, it was also
expensive: though touted as a
"cheap" computer, this was only true if compared to
the Macintosh. It was
far more expensive than a PlayStation.
Ultimately, Pippin as a technology suffered because
it was a late starter in
the 3D generation of consoles, and was under-powered
as a gaming machine and
personal computer. Bandai's version died a quick
death, only ever having a
relatively limited release in the United States and
Japan."
I also checked out links from this description and
came to the 3DO and M2
both of which used RISC processors (i.e. 3DO used
the ARM60 32-bit and the
M2 used a PowerPC 602/33).
So, all in all, I'm sorry but the Pippin does NOT
belong on this list.
Please take it to the PowerPC list. Thank you. ;D
BTW thanks and nice find! Never heard of the Pippin
before this.
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