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In 1996, I bought a Power Computing PowerTower 166 (a Mac clone, the second most powerful Mac one could buy at the time) and ran System 7.5 and then 7.6 on it.
by jonstewart 8y ago
In 1996, I bought a Power Computing PowerTower 166 (a Mac clone, the second most powerful Mac one could buy at the time) and ran System 7.5 and then 7.6 on it. But I got bored and figured out how to install BeOS on a second partition. Holy cow! It was sooooo much faster. It had an OpenGL demo app, with spinning cubes, and you could drag and drop movies onto it and they’d play without stuttering as the cube spun around. It was a spare, simple, beautiful OS.
- scroot 8y agoGotta say, my Power Computing was one of my favorite machines I've ever owned
- butterfi 8y agoPower Computing had, if I remember correctly, a one-hour long sale that doubled the amount of RAM you ordered (back when RAM was really expensive). I bought a great tower, pulled half the RAM and redistributed to my other desktop. Good times!
- jonstewart 8y agoNot just the 604, but also the 66 MHz bus and the faaaast 7200 RPM Micropolis 2 GB SCSI hard drive... /swoon I do kind of wonder whether I’d have learned more Unix faster if I’d have bought an SGI O2.
- agumonkey 8y agoI say that often: when watching beos demo (97?) these decade.. it brings tears to your eyes. First, because it's so nicely designed it's beautiful. Second because even today my laptop system can't really do that.