12 Sep
2005
12 Sep
'05
11:26 p.m.
On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 23:52:51 -0400
John Boffemmyer IV <john_boffemmyer_iv at boff-net.dhs.org> wrote:
I may sound like a dick for saying such, but if the OS
is missing and
price is an issue, there's always Linux and several other OS'es that
work fine on Apple products. Just a logical and semi-obvious thought.
-John Boffemmyer IV
NetBSD runs marvelously on old Apple hardware. I have it installed on
one of my SE/30's, which is the oldest Apple hardware I have run it on.
The little one-bit display is a bit limited for X11 but with the Tab
Window Manager it's actually somewhat usable. The SE/30 is also nice
because you can put a lot more memory in it than any other 'classic'
Mac. 32 megs is trivial, and if you chase down 30 pin 16M SIMMs you can
put 128 Megs in an SE/30.
PS: I always hated OS9 after it corrupted itself on my
ex's mac and I
had to spend a week reloading the damned thing.
At 11:35 PM 9/7/2005, you wrote:
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, woodelf wrote:
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The problem with $10 mac's is $0 software.
With a old PC you could
steal DOS and BASIC from good old Gates. :) They still may be
usefull for parts like CRT's and 68000's for the really old mac's.
Most of these (at least the ones with hard drives) probably have a
full OS and apps already installed on them.
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