24 Nov
2009
24 Nov
'09
5:21 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Lanning" <brianlanning at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: Ten Year Rule
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Cameron Kaiser
<spectre at floodgap.com>wrote:
I have one of these in a IIfx:
http://picasaweb.google.com/teozenios/NubusCards#5074342978870541170
486/100 with a PCMCIA slot you can stick a wireless network card into.
Orange Micro sold 286, 386, 486 Nubus cards (I have a 486/133 in a Quadra
950 and a few 386 models).
I have 286 bridgeboard in my Amiga 2000 but gave it to a friend and
installed an XT instead just to be different.
Or PC compatibility cards. Got my Power Mac 7300
an OrangePC 620 board.
Runs well, I'm going to stick an AMD on it later.
I agree. I'm fascinated by hardware emulation upgrades. I just bought a
286 board for my amiga should should be here shortly. I'd love to put
something similar in the IIfx or quadra 700. There's also a fairly common
mac emulation board for the amiga. It would be fun to have both a mac and
dos window open on the amiga desktop at the same time. :-)
I've more or less decided to get a G3 or G4 as soon as I can spot a
reasonably priced example. The sweet spot for me is somewhere around $50
which is when people seem to start throwing them out.
brian
B&W G3's were giveaways a year ago or two ago, early G4 towers seem to
heading there now. You have a window of a few years before the price start
rising again and the units become hard to find (they all get recycled).
Makes me wonder why recyclers have not opened up a warehouse to hold onto
the better/cleaner systems for 5 years and make a profit selling on ebay or
their own websites.