[OT] Re: clones and PowerPC computes

2000-09-29 Thread Jim Coefield
has to go to http://www.powerwatch.com and login to their PowerPC users forum to see the vibrancy and life that still exists in the PowerPC platform. /rant Jim Coefield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: clones From: "Nicholas Froome" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:12:54 +0

[OT] Re: clones and PowerPC computes

2000-09-29 Thread Matt Barkdull
I should mention that the 7200 is upgradable as well thanks to Sonnet and Newer. The PowerBase, while based on the 7200 motherboard, made many significant improvements on the original design, including the ability to upgrade the machine easily with the addition of a daughter card processor,

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2000-09-28 Thread Nicholas Froome
I'm running it on a beige G3 300MHz desktop. I wouldn't trust a Power Computing system as a backup server...those are the Packard-Bell of the Mac clone world. Actually, most of the motherboards are the same as the Apple equivalents. They changed other things like floppy drives and CD-ROM

Re: clones

2000-09-28 Thread Scott Ponzani
I'm running it on a beige G3 300MHz desktop. I wouldn't trust a Power Computing system as a backup server...those are the Packard-Bell of the Mac clone world. Actually, most of the motherboards are the same as the Apple equivalents. They changed other things like floppy drives and CD-ROM

Re: clones

2000-09-28 Thread Seth D. Mattinen
on 9/28/00 8:00 PM, retro-talk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, most of the motherboards are the same as the Apple equivalents. They changed other things like floppy drives and CD-ROM drives to a cheaper 3rd party though. I had a customer that had a Power Computing PPC. Equivalent