The Apple IIe is off-patent - not that it seemed anybody cared in the day, mine was an AMI PC, a perfect Taiwanese clone :-) Anyway, I am always hoping for ICT4E hardware in the right price range, which IMHO is the cost of a Happy Meal toy. Already calculators are there and cheaper, and thus, who knows, maybe a computer-in-a-chip with Public Domain basic technology using current manufacturing could make it. Sorry, dreaming like this is a waste of time, I know.
2011/4/13, Erik Blankinship <[email protected]>: > Before completely dismissing the mac ppc architecture, it is noteworthy that > the platform has a bright retrograde future in tablets. > http://blogger-off.com/apple-powerbook-g4-12-tablet/ > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Sean DALY <[email protected]> wrote: > >> PPC on Mac is also, unfortunately, a platform with no future, the last >> machine having been manufactured in 2005. It's a tribute to Apple's >> hardware quality that many are still around (I have G3s, G4s and G5s >> still going strong, including one of the latter duals maxed out with 8 >> Gb of RAM and 6 Tb of onboard disk) but the most recent MacOS (10.6) >> does not run on them, nor does any version of VirtualBox. >> >> Sean >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Caryl, >> > Running Sugar in any machine is not free, we must invest many,many, >> hours >> > of work, and the complexity of the plataform is increased. >> > We need select out targets, we don't have infinite resources. >> > Regards, >> > >> > Gonzalo >> > >> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Caryl Bigenho <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> I haven't run Android on anything since I took my Android phone back to >> >> Verizon after trying and not liking it for a few days a couple of years >> ago. >> >> I am talking about running Sugar using whatever method can be devised. >> The >> >> easier the better! >> >> I have run Strawberry and Blueberry in a Virtual Box on my MacBook, but >> >> not without problems. I haven't tried the VB on the PowerBook I gave >> >> my >> >> husband after replacing the defunct hard drive and getting a new >> >> MacBook >> (no >> >> longer new ;-( . I have been able to run EToys to Go on both of them as >> well >> >> as an eeePC I bought so I could experiment with these things. Etoys >> project >> >> files transfer seamlessly between all three of these machines. My >> >> dream >> >> situation would be to have Sugar work the same way. >> >> Caryl >> >> >> >> > Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:23:02 -0400 >> >> > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Exploring Sugar-on-Tablets >> >> > From: [email protected] >> >> > To: [email protected] >> >> > CC: [email protected]; [email protected]; >> >> > [email protected]; [email protected] >> >> > >> >> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Martin Langhoff >> >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Caryl Bigenho < >> [email protected]> >> >> > > wrote: >> >> > >> PCs and Linux machines yes. But... there still lots of issues with >> >> > >> Macs and >> >> > >> so far it does not work with the older G4 Power PC Macs (EToys to >> go >> >> > >> does!). >> >> > > >> >> > > Does Android run on your G4 PPC Mac?? Or is this all random talk? >> >> > >> >> > This week's work (Sugar-on-Chrome) provides a much better story for >> >> > desktop compatibility. >> >> > --scott >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
