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Re: Aos 3 -> mos
« on: June 05, 2011, 03:20:29 PM »
Too expensive to upgrade an Amiga to run it, and for non-Amiga PPC hardware there's other equal or better operating systems that are free.

(Points to MOS Team for not restricting you to upgraded Amigas or ridiculously-priced custom boards, though.)
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Re: Aos 3 -> mos
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2011, 07:33:31 PM »
Quote from: Iggy;642664
PPC Macs are practically free anyway.
Hell, they are free in the US - go into any public school in the entire country and you'll find a classroom full of old 603 - G4 Macs that they don't want to take the time or money to haul off to the dump. (And plenty of 68k machines, too.) One local school would've given every last one of 'em if I'd had the space in my car.
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Re: Aos 3 -> mos
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2011, 07:57:08 PM »
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Here in the UK you still have to pay silly money for them. Just last summer my iMAC G4 cost me £160 and then £300 to upgrade (yes I know I got conned on that one... :cry:) and the iMac G5 I bought about a month later cost me £355 and they still go at those prices today on evilBay & second hand online stores... :(
Ohhh bummer. Pity you didn't have anybody's address over here, we coulda grabbed you a free one - then again, I suppose shipping one of those beasts across the pond would jack the price up nearly that far anyway...
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I could have bought a brand new one for that money but I don't like the toffee nosed sales gits you find in Apple stores [strike]over here...[/strike] everywhere... :madashell:
Fixed that for you ;)
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