Al Hartman wrote:
I wanted to make something clear since this is a PCC list...
I *LOVE* my two PCC computers (A Power Computing Power 100 &
PowerCenter 132). They are great machines.
My only point was that except for the fun and play value, if
someone's finances are limited... It might not make sense to try to
upgrade some PCC Models to run MacOS X.
*IF* your machine is supported by XPostFacto, and you can get a G3/G4
Upgrade cheaply on eBay...
GO TO TOWN!!!
I would, it i could...
I often see my PC132 sitting in the corner of my bedroom, and get
nostalgic. It used to be my main computer AND my BeBox.
I think I might wipe it out and make it my BeBox again...
That would be a good use for it.
I really wish PowerComputing had stayed in business and come out with
laptops. I certainly would have bought PC Clones from them, had they
gone there...
It's a company that had style and good computers, and I miss them.
Thanks!
Al Hartman
PCC Owner since 1995
Heys
I presume this means you have a copy of BeOS for PowerPC? Would you be
interested in selling or copying it for me? I'd love to try BeOS on
these machines.
As an historical aside, Jean Gassee' referred to BeOS as 'Amiga 1996'
when he came out with BeOS. Like the Amiga before it, it was small,
fast, efficient and friendly. I tried BeOS 4.5 on x86 and it was great,
no wonder M$ went to such great pains to kill it. It was so blatantly
superior to Windows that it wasn't even funny. Let's see.. fifteen
seconds to full desktop or.. two minutes plus to fakey almost usable
desktop with hourglass pointer for another minute and a half.. BeOS
just kicked ass and I'll never forgive M$ for killing it off. They did
so by telling vendors, notably Hitachi, that if they tried to sell BeOS
in any configuration then they couldn't buy Windows anymore. Yeah,
that's fair. No monopoly control there..
Anyway I always wanted to get my hands on BeOS for PPC. I have a
PegasosI running MorphOS too. No Windows box to hand here except the
wife's and I'm working on that too..
Thanks
Bolton
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