What do you think of Apple now?
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Originally Posted by KenS2K,Jun 7 2005, 01:22 AM
Mac Daddy 
I look forward to dual boot Macs. This will make it easier for some to justify making the switch to Apple if they don't have to dump all their windows stuff right away.
I look forward to dual boot Macs. This will make it easier for some to justify making the switch to Apple if they don't have to dump all their windows stuff right away.
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Originally Posted by KenS2K,Jun 7 2005, 02:02 AM
I'm banking on the future trend of retro computers. 
<-- Poised to cash in selling my Vic20 with 3k RAM and 300 baud modem.
I do think Jobs should not have shown all his cards at this time. They will need to support PowerPC machines for some time. He could have announced that they would be adding Intel based machines to their product line due to the lack of a suitable G5 chip for PowerBooks. Then let IBM and Intel race to make better chips.
<-- Poised to cash in selling my Vic20 with 3k RAM and 300 baud modem.
I do think Jobs should not have shown all his cards at this time. They will need to support PowerPC machines for some time. He could have announced that they would be adding Intel based machines to their product line due to the lack of a suitable G5 chip for PowerBooks. Then let IBM and Intel race to make better chips.
Waiting to cash in.....I have my brothers original 1986 128K 7" screen Macintosh from incoming class of Drexel University (they were the first in the nation to require every incoming freshman to purchase a computer) 
It even has a Drexel D logo stenciled on it. 
I'm glad I took free shipping. Shipping is out of Sac and delivery is overnight.
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Originally Posted by NikePenguin,Jun 7 2005, 04:10 PM
I have an Apple II+ with dual floppy drives and an Apple III montior. 64KB of ram baby...and an 80 (thinker) column card. 
Hang on to that one. I remember playing a vector graphic summer olympics game on these machines and being blown away!
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Originally Posted by PeaceLove&S2K,Jun 7 2005, 08:11 AM
Didn't Apple make something like that once? A PowerMac with two processors, a PowerPC and an Intel processor, so that you could dual boot Windows and MacOS. (This was in the 486 or early Pentium days, IIRC)
My drummer has a proto-board. He did most of the backplane FW for the chipset. We should box that thing and fire up Windows 3.11 and see if it takes.
