I am pretty sure that Xbox 360 can surf the net. As I said, it might
even be able to run Vista.
On Sep 25, 2005, at 11:15 PM, Scott Baret wrote:
I recall reading about a console that was planned back
in the late 1970s from Apple. I think it was called
Annie but the sources out there are fuzzy. Some say
the Annie project eventually became the Mac. It all
depends on what you read.
If that was true it was probably going head to head
with the Atari 2600 should it have been released. I
still think the 2600 is the greatest console ever and
I speak because I still have one that works. Played it
last week, in fact. (My favorite game is probably
Kaboom--the one where you moved the paddles and had to
catch the bombs--and I wasn't bad at it despite my
failing hand eye coordination due to old age)
I know little about this XBox 360 but will it be a
machine that can surf the net? Being a living room
computer it wouldn't surprise me if people could check
their e-mail and then go and play their video games.
And yes, Apple is ALWAYS advanced...look at the Lisa.
It took years for some of those technologies to get
integrated into the Mac OS and Windows. Don't forget
the QuickTake camera, either...defniitely a pioneer.
Scott
--- "Luis D. [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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The way I see it, Apple helped microsoft once again
get ahead of
them. Xbox 360 is a living room computer just like
pippin too. I've
heard rumors that it will be able to run a version
of Windows Vista
in the future, though I'm not too sure on that. I
think that pippin
was a premature Xbox 360.
On Sep 25, 2005, at 7:38 PM, Thomas Burns wrote:
In case anyone is interested:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Mint-boxed-Apple-Pippin-Development-
System_W0QQitemZ5293877331QQcategoryZ1247QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZ
ViewItem
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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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