24 Nov
2009
24 Nov
'09
12:57 p.m.
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!
I guard my quad G5 jealously, and I'm stockpiling parts for it. They are
still selling used well over $1000. It is my daily driver system, and I have
no plans to retire it.
However, the dual 1.25GHz FW400 MDD G4s are dropping well under $300. I got
a spare for my OS 9 development system already. I also picked up a body
double 450MHz G4 Sawtooth as parts for my fileserver ($75). This is a great
time for Power Mac collectors.
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).
I got a whole bunch of 68K software from, of all places, the local Kaiser
hospital. They were selling their old stuff, a buck a box, in the library.
I walked off with CricketGraph, NOW Utilities, ...
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