From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 13 13: 6:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F19537B401 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:06:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCDFC43E97 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:06:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g9DJiY5b058898; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 12:44:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id g9DJiYCA058897; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 12:44:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 12:44:34 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Peter Grehan Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cheap power-pc platform on eBay... Message-ID: <20021013194434.GB58547@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <3DA94F6F.4D7A5C79@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DA94F6F.4D7A5C79@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 08:48:15PM +1000, Peter Grehan wrote: > > There are quite a number of these gadgets on eBay right now, they would > > probably make a cheap entry-level platform for powerpc work: > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2059912083 > > For the budget-conscious developer, I'd recommend the Apple 'Beige' G3. Not > much more expensive than this one on auction sites, and will be supported by > FreeBSD/PPC in the near future. Where are you finding "Beige" G3's for $35?? I quick eBay search showed the price to be more in the $200 - $300 price range. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message