This appeared in my YouTube suggestions - enjoy! 
BTW: do any of you own one of these?
BTW: do any of you own one of these?
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PowerBook 2400c -- The Japanese Mac Made by IBM
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I don't own one, but it looks awesome! It sorta makes me think that these are what Mac clones based on the ThinkPad 800 series might look like.This appeared in my YouTube suggestions - enjoy!
BTW: do any of you own one of these?
I tried bidding on a couple a while back but even for busted ones with parts missing, the prices went sky high. At the end of the day, it's a cut down 3400, so owning one is for rarity value more than anything.
The IBM 800 series was very different from what we have here, though. Very quirky machines. I don't think Apple was ready to offer web cameras as an optional extra for notebooks back then. Would still love one of those even with their limitations and that includes the melting rubberised coverings.
The IBM 800 series was very different from what we have here, though. Very quirky machines. I don't think Apple was ready to offer web cameras as an optional extra for notebooks back then. Would still love one of those even with their limitations and that includes the melting rubberised coverings.
Agreed - this is the pre-G3 machine I'd like to have. A couple of months back one turned up on eBay and didn't sell (starting bid was ridiculously high, as usual) but when I contacted the seller afterwards it had apparently been "passed on to a family member". Oh well, saved me from wasting a lot of money.
Good point. It was more an idea I had than anything. I'd love to get an 800 series laptop and install PPC Windows on it for no particular reason :3
Be prepared to pay a lot for a machine to run an OS with close to no support then. I reckon the PowerPC Edition of OS/2 is more interesting due to full-blown x86 emulation for DOS and Win3.1.
Oh! Thanks for the tip! I forgot OS/2 had a PPC releaseBe prepared to pay a lot for a machine to run an OS with close to no support then. I reckon the PowerPC Edition of OS/2 is more interesting due to full-blown x86 emulation for DOS and Win3.1.
Sadly, PPC NT was the least useful (except maybe for MIPS NT) with no real 3rd party software. You can try it in QEMU, I think. Alpha was the way to go back in the day if you wanted something different from Intel. I'd quite like to try OS/2 on PPC just because, although equally useless.
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Be prepared to pay a lot for a machine to run an OS with close to no support then. I reckon the PowerPC Edition of OS/2 is more interesting due to full-blown x86 emulation for DOS and Win3.1.
Yes. They tend to go for about $1k plus depending upon condition but never less than four figures. I nearly got one from a local seller a few years ago but he killed the auction with a day to go. Possibly the cheapest way to try is with the one unsupported RS/6000 that someone got to work with OS/2 if you can find one, that is.
Now you're making me want to try MIPS NT
Thanks
Agreed. There were plans to release Windows 2000 for Alpha but they were canned (possibly due to Itanium), making the RC2 the last build of W2K to run on Alpha.
Now you're making me want to try MIPS NT
You reminded me of this video I watched a couple of weeks ago.