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If you're serious, and are willing to come get them, I'll save them for you. It's more like 4 hours each way.
For most people its a tinker hobby at this point, PowerPC for me was 2010-2013, summertime at 2am when it was still hot as hell in my room and the G5 would have its fans on blast playing BF1942 before the gamespy shutdown. Listening to Mactubes playlists of some of the first Pop-Punk/Alt rock I ever got into. Have you ever had those dog days you pretty much know are going to be nostalgia for you later in life?
Those were the PowerPC days for me.
Those were the PowerPC days for me.
If there weren't people who liked keeping old stuff going you'd never see a classic car on the road 
They may drink 5x as much fuel and also be slower, noisier and handle terribly compared with even a modern family runabout but that's not the point....
Of course not everything is awarded 'classic' status, it has to be unique, beautifully made or designed etc. Most PPC machines fit that perfectly so I think it's understandable.
People who don't get it are just like people who would never want a classic car - it's old, dated, thirsty, slow by modern standards, can't go round corners, unreliable etc. they're probably very practical.. but there are those who dream of owning and maintaining one just because it's a 'classic'.
They may drink 5x as much fuel and also be slower, noisier and handle terribly compared with even a modern family runabout but that's not the point....
Of course not everything is awarded 'classic' status, it has to be unique, beautifully made or designed etc. Most PPC machines fit that perfectly so I think it's understandable.
People who don't get it are just like people who would never want a classic car - it's old, dated, thirsty, slow by modern standards, can't go round corners, unreliable etc. they're probably very practical.. but there are those who dream of owning and maintaining one just because it's a 'classic'.
Oh it's not that I think Office 2016 is a bad Office product. It's that I don't like Office in general. My school offers Office as well, but I stick to iWork. Because a lot of features were removed back when they converged the iOS, iCloud and Mac version of iWork, I've kept the old versions too, and occasionally have to use them, but in general, I think Pages is a lot better than Word for one simple reason - It's clean. The way Word looks and feels to use really does make me cry. Pages is pretty, intuitive and does the trick. Not as feature rich these days, but it's got what I need for my school work. It's a personal preference thing
Summer 1984, Telengard on the Commodore 64.
The time period lasted for me until June 1989 when I graduated high school.
Those five years I ran a BBS on a Commodore 64 and 128, had a blast with the games for those computers (no sound card required) and had an ongoing RPG (pencil, paper and dice) campaign with friends.
I also had my own car and my dad was paying the insurance, gas and maintenance.
So, yeah, bit of nostalgia there.
For me, part of using and collecting PowerPC Macs is my nostalgia for the 2000s. Even though I lived in a Windows household, 2000s technology regardless of Mac or Windows really impressed me back then, and I still get those nostalgic feelings when using the computers and operating systems of the 2000s, with the heavy use of skeuomorphism (a lost art in my opinion), and the more primitive features that seemed so modern back then. I remember very well that I was reading on Windows Vista before the release, and the way the entire OS looked just left such an impression. Sure, Vista was bad in the end, but I have good memories of it. And older 80s and 90s technology is nostalgic to me, since I had a Commodore 64 since I was 8 or 9 or so. I came across a picture of a C64 around that time, got really interested, then wanted one. So my dad was able to get one from a colleague, along with the matching Commodore color monitor, datasette and 1541 disk drive. Still have it (have two now after a lucky thrift score), and they're probably never going away either.
I had three 1541 drives and two 1581 drives at one point.
3.5" floppies on a C128 in 1990 and I thought I was on the bleeding edge of technology.
Still have my C64 + games & peripherals wrapped up in saranwrap at Pops place. Unfortunately, my C64 monitor died in a flood back in Ohio when I was a kid.
It was all about games for me (still is lol). I was so excited when I figured out I could connect my NES to my C64 monitor. I was a kid in the 80's. Be envious.
It was all about games for me (still is lol). I was so excited when I figured out I could connect my NES to my C64 monitor. I was a kid in the 80's. Be envious.
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Going to Federated in the 80s was the closest you could get to heaven. Got a lot of games from there. Still have my 1985 Sanyo stereo system I got from there.Still have my C64 + games & peripherals wrapped up in saranwrap at Pops place. Unfortunately, my C64 monitor died in a flood back in Ohio when I was a kid.
It was all about games for me (still is lol). I was so excited when I figured out I could connect my NES to my C64 monitor. I was a kid in the 80's. Be envious.
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Still have my C64 + games & peripherals wrapped up in saranwrap at Pops place. Unfortunately, my C64 monitor died in a flood back in Ohio when I was a kid.
It was all about games for me (still is lol). I was so excited when I figured out I could connect my NES to my C64 monitor. I was a kid in the 80's. Be envious.
I was a BBC Model B guy myself shortly followed by a RISC Acorn Archimedes... Happy days of 5 hour + Elite playing sessions....
Was the C64 the one with the Ghostbusters game or was that the Vic20? Remember playing that at a friends many times also but can't remember which he had as they both looked very similar (from memory) Good you still have it.
If you remember the console as a light yellow or cream then it was a Vic-20. If you remember it as a deep brown then it was a C64.
The C128 and the later form factor of the C64 was white.
Only crossover between the Vic20 and C64 was that some of the devices made for the Vic were compatible with the 64. I had a tape deck and a 1541 drive intended for the Vic20 that I used for my C64. Both of those had the cream coloring because the Vic20 is what they were originally designed for. They just happened to be compatible with the C64.
Yes, there is a GB version for the C64. I have it along with a bunch of other stuff on 5.25" floppy.
Lol, I forgot about that bouncing ball
Lol, I forgot about that bouncing ball
Only MPEG2.
Intel Mac running OS X 10.6.3+ with a nVidia 9400 or ATI HD 2600 required for H.264.