----- Original Message -----
From: "Cameron Kaiser" <spectre at floodgap.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 12:11 PM
Subject: Power Macs and PC Compatibility Cards was Re: Ten Year Rule
People are going to start dumping Power Macs by the
truckload very soon,
because there is no market for them and thanks to Apple no future for them
either, at least through traditional OS X. For people like me who prefer
the POWER ISA and have a big investment in the classic Mac OS, this is
heaven
because any Power Mac can run classic apps, either in OS 9 or Classic
under
Tiger, and they are about to become really really cheap.
That is what I am waiting for to snag the last G4's that boot into native OS
9.x. Something tells me the G5 towers are going to be expensive like old
Amigas because they are the last of the PPC breed. I don't really care about
OSX at all, one of my B&W G3's (with a G4) runs it for web usage on a
separate HD. If you want Unix on a Mac fire up A/UX on a Quadra!
Hopefully the thrifts will be overflowing with boxed PPC software soon so I
can stock up (even now I run into hard to find 68k/ppc stuff at a local
thrift nobody else wants).