[TriLUG] why run open source OS on oddball old hardware?

[Thunder Bear]

On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 12:14, John Franklin wrote:

> Yup.  The 128k Macintosh had an 8MHz 68000.  There were a handful of
> machines in the early '90s that had a PPC chip for a main processor, but
> a "PC Compatibility Card" (read: an x86 on an expansion board) to run
> DOS apps (and maybe Windows 3.x).

Considering I have a basement full of Macs from the early to mid 90's,
I'm curious about what models might have had these x86 cards.  I've got
everything down there from LC to PowerMac 5400 and lots of models in
between.