You could run YellowDog Linux on the PowerMac 8500. http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/ydl_home.shtml
You could upgrade the CPU and RAM cheap as well. -John >On Monday, March 18, 2002, at 05:16 PM, Chuck "PUP" Payne wrote: > >>Thanks, I am pushing them to go to OS X, but they are PPC 8500, which can >>only go to Mac OS 8.6, maybe 9. They don't want to buy a new computer, I >>personal have a G4 and Snowflake iBook and am running 10.1.3 with Apache, >>PHP, and MySQL. I told the I search and ask, which I have so thanks guys. > >Recommend them a cheap Linux box. You could probably set yourself >up with a web server for less than a hundred bucks, just need a >Pentium 1 with a crummy handmedown monitor and an ethernet card. >Mandrake is supposed to be incredibly easy to use and graphically >configurable, and if these people really want to get going with PHP >and web serving then they're probably willing to learn a little >Linux... or they could get someone else (yourself?) to administrate >the box for them. > >Or even put the 68k linux distro (I forget its name) on their 8500. > >>By the Eric Price, I could see PHP on Atari ST(they have the same chips as >>the Mac Classic, 68K) and I know in England and Germany are still used by >>many and are even on the internet, but not an 800. I still to this day write >>code in Atari Basic on my 800. I miss my Atari ST 1040, but I gave that up >>for my first mac, Power Book 145B, but I am wandering. ;) > >I must have had about 300 games for my old Atari 800. Gallahad and >the Holy Grail, Ulysses and the Golden Fleece, Jungle Hunt, Pitfall, >Haunted House, man... I wish I still had them. Then again, it might >be like those movies that you remember so fondly as a kid but then >you see again fifteen years later and you're like "what was I >thinking?" The memory ends up being better than the reality. My >Atari is best left in my attic... :) > > > > >---- > >Erik Price >Web Developer Temp >Media Lab, H.H. Brown >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- John J. Olson Multimedia Production Manager Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center 2323 West 14th Street Suite 540 Tempe, Arizona 85281 http://matec.org phone (480) 517-8664 fax (480) 517-8669 MATEC is a member of the Academic Affairs and Student Development Division of the Maricopa Community Colleges -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
