Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 22:03:47 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Rob <europax@home.com> Cc: "freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How do you get kids interested in computers- other than playing games? Message-ID: <200103150403.f2F43me75356@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Rob <europax@home.com> of "Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:40:05 PST." <3AAEDA05.70B4FB77@home.com>
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Rob writes: > David Kelly wrote: > > > > Put MacOS X on it two weeks from now. It should have a pretty enough > > interface to keep him amused. And a solid foundation underneath. > > I never thought about Mac OS X. I have an an old Power Computing clone > here in the basement- I wonder if OS X will run on it? It might be > nice to try it out first. Thanks for the advice. Sadly, running MacOS X on the older hardware might work if you replace the kernel with an offical recompiled Darwin. Some have had such success with the Public Beta. Suspect Apple will have to extend support to older hardware eventually but at the moment has their hands full. Have had a PowerCenterPro 210 MHz 604e the past 5 years, used daily. Couldn't afford to mess it up playing with Darwin, so I didn't play. With the January price drop I couldn't pass up a G4 400 at $1295. Ordered on the web at 10:30 PM, arrived at 9:30 AM the next morning from Outpost.com, free shipping, and they threw in an additional 64MB. Even let me install it vs. the other places that stiff you $30 to install the "free" memory. So now if I could just find the time I have an unsupported 604e to play wiht Darwin on. But had so much fun with the G4 that I turned around and ordered a Titanium PowerBook G4 400. Had that for a couple weeks too and no time to "move in" and get settled. However, I've preordered MacOS X, and may hide from the world that weekend it arrives. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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