Apple 'Star Trek'?

From: Curt vendel <curt_at_atarimuseum.com>
Date: Tue Jan 27 12:13:58 2004

You can pick up a respectable G4 cheap, I bought a Quicksilver not long ago
very low and just picked up a GB of memory for $150 and popped in a 60GB for
$70 and a copy of OS X 10.2 I bought for $20 and the system is purring along
VERY nicely.




Curt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Witchy" <witchy_at_binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 6:23 AM
Subject: RE: Apple 'Star Trek'?


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org
> > [mailto:cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Curt vendel
> > Sent: 27 January 2004 03:09
> > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> > Subject: Re: Apple 'Star Trek'?
> >
> > Apparently the head of technology saw his pink slip flash before his
eyes
> > when he realized that a Mac OS on PC hardware would cause the
> > elimination of
> > Mac hardware and the project was scuttled internally...
>
> I wonder if that was a wise decision in hindsight. Discuss. *evil grin* :)
>
> > It would be cool to see that original code running on a PC today.
>
> Yep. I bet someone held onto a copy that's now sitting in the bottom of a
> filing cabinet somewhere slowly becoming unreadable.....
>
> > Also it mentioned that while the OS did boot on a PC, the Chooser didn't
> > work, nor did serial port access and/or appletalk and Applications did
not
> > work and would've had to have been ported over.
>
> Oh. Bummer. Still, these days since I can't afford a G4 or G5 I've got the
> next best thing - ObjectBar, ObjectDock and WindowBlinds from Stardock!
>
> cheers
>
> --
> Adrian/Witchy
> www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - possibly the UK's biggest online computer
museum
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>
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