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#1 2008-03-25 6:19 pm
- Mark Taylor
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Power Computing
Hello,
Is anyone still playing with Power Computing hardware?
Mark in WBGV
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#2 2008-03-27 4:34 am
- pkmgarf
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Re: Power Computing
Power computing would be the basis of this forum. As far as I know, anything using a PowerPC processor is considered "vintage apple" at this point. All of the intel stuff is the only stuff considered non-vintage. And yes, there are many, many people still using PowerPc stuff and still even using OS 9.
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#3 2008-03-27 5:14 am
Re: Power Computing
Um, a Power Mac G5 or PowerBook G4 ifs hardly vintage. We don't consider currently supported hardware "vintage".
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#4 2008-03-27 8:16 am
- dvpierce
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Re: Power Computing
That's great and all, but he didn't say PowerPC, he said Power Computing. The clone manufacturer from the late 1990s.
Basically, anything that anybody ever said about a Power Mac 7500 you can say about most Power Computing machines. What specifically are you curious about?
http://lowendmac.com/clones/index.shtml
^^Probably a good starting point.^^
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#5 2008-03-27 12:05 pm
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Re: Power Computing
Alien wrote:
Um, a Power Mac G5 or PowerBook G4 ifs hardly vintage. We don't consider currently supported hardware "vintage".
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#6 2008-03-27 12:17 pm
- Mr. Happypants
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Re: Power Computing
My only PowerComputing rig (my first owned Mac OS machine actually) went to an electronics recycling truck a few years back. Jsut had no reason to kepp it around collecting dust. 
I did, however, rip the logo bezels off it before I junked it!
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#7 2008-05-11 2:11 am
- willywalloo
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Re: Power Computing
I had one come into my shop, s9000. what a pro-unit for the time. Think it was 225 Mhz; which mean't, what, it was around 4-5000 $ new?
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#8 2008-05-15 4:45 pm
- Mark Taylor
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Re: Power Computing
Willy,
I believe the S9000 was another clone of about the same era. I'm already on
lowendmac's mailing lists. I have two in my closet (PCP,PTP) and wondered if anyone
on this forum still played with them.
Regards,
Mark
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#9 2008-05-15 5:03 pm
- mrreet2001
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Re: Power Computing
pkmgarf wrote:
Power computing would be the basis of this forum. As far as I know, anything using a PowerPC processor is considered "vintage apple" at this point. All of the intel stuff is the only stuff considered non-vintage. And yes, there are many, many people still using PowerPc stuff and still even using OS 9.
Clarus lives—and she has OS 9, a beige box, & an ADB keyboard
2.2Ghz BlackMB---15" 2.4Ghz MBP(work)---Dual 2.3Ghz G5 (4G Ram, 2x 250G HD)---1.5GHz Powerbook---1.6Ghz G5 iMac ---500Mhz iMac DV
2.4GHz PC --- 1.2Ghz PC laptop
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#10 2008-05-16 9:12 am
- dvpierce
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Re: Power Computing
Mark Taylor wrote:
Willy,
I believe the S9000 was another clone of about the same era. I'm already on
lowendmac's mailing lists. I have two in my closet (PCP,PTP) and wondered if anyone
on this forum still played with them.
Regards,
Mark
UMAX S900, not S9000.
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