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

[John Franklin]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 12:47:36PM -0400, Thunder Bear wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 12:34, John Franklin wrote:
> 
> > They were option cards that were available with certain Performa, Quadra
> > and PowerMacintosh models.  If the machine shipped with the option, it
> > usually had "PC Compatiable" or something like it printed on the front.
> 
> OK I probably don't have any of those then.  I didn't see any labels
> like that.  Though I do have some quadras & powermacs which appear to
> have a tv tuner card in them.  Wonder if they are linux compatible.

TV tuner or video in/out?  Those sound like the AV models.  They will
run Linux, but I doubt the video bits are supported.  At least, I've
never heard of them being supported.

jf
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