Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!uunet!lll-winken!taco!hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Toaster on a Mac (Re: IAC) Message-ID: <1991Jun26.032926.12181@ncsu.edu> Date: 26 Jun 91 03:29:26 GMT References: <4185@ux.acs.umn.edu> <1991Jun25.044521.592@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1991Jun25.075911.635@ncsu.edu> <1991Jun26.020206.2366@menudo.uh.edu> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 16 jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend) writes: > (Kevin Darling) writes: >>Sure. "Parts is parts" :-) There are cash registers which use PCs as guts, >>kiosks with Amigas, and tons of gizmos which use either CoCo or C64 boards. >>None of them power up and say "Hey I'm really a XX machine in here!" :-) > >Oh yeah? I've seen more than one cable channel go to coco boot mode >early in the morning. :-) Oops. Yeah, that's true. Kinda like all the Amiga Guru sightings on cable channels, too :-) :-) Plus some POS terminals do come up with an OS boot message. Perhaps I should've said: none ("almost none!" to play it safe :) of the 3td party boxes have the original internal computer label on the front. Thanks for the correction! cheers - kev