Attached Link: http://www.amazon.com/Fractal-Design-Poser-2/dp/B0017GC2VQ/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1244674254&sr=1-9

It is a used copy...

Maybe somebody hopped on the new copy and snapped it up ;)

fractal designs. I recall one of their techs telling me to do a refl map by rendering a scene with a camera of focal length approx. 1 mm.  this was in the old days when reflection maps were de rigeur.

Some ppl that sell on ebay buy discontinued or limited supply items. If there is still a Poser 2 box around with a cd in it, it's fair game. Wholesale suppliers are always ready to get rid of any obsolete stock and chances are the person selling Poser 2 doesn't even know how far Poser has come or how primitive Poser 2 is...LOL. However, someone will come along who doesn't know either and buy the darn thing...hehe.

Laurie

... if I see someone buy this Poser 2 and then come here asking how to get Victoria 4 working on it.....

:lol:

If it was  $5.00, I might be tempted to buy it for the sake of historical interest, but at $40.00, they can stick it where the sun don't shine.   :tt2:

Quote - If it was  $5.00, I might be tempted to buy it for the sake of historical interest, but at $40.00, they can stick it where the sun don't shine.   :tt2:

For real? Forty smackers? I guess they haven't heard the economy sucks...LOL. Of course, I spend that and more on one trip to Daz....sigh.

Laurie

Quote - If it was  $5.00, I might be tempted to buy it for the sake of historical interest, but at $40.00, they can stick it where the sun don't shine.   :tt2:

Considering that Posers 3 and 5 have been free at various times, and Poser 6 has been on sale (albeit briefly) for $20 IIRC, then I tend to agree with you. :)

The new copy was $20 when I looked. I wonder if sombody looking at this post snatched it up. The product image is not the box, so it might have only been an OEM version of it. Trying to sell a used copy at $40 is ridiculous. That's nearly half the upgrade price to Poser 7 (actually a third the price at the moment).

Every now and then I'll see some ancient product that somebody found in a warehouse and put it out for sale. About a decade ago, CompUSA (may they rest in peace) had a shopping cart with clearance items and one of them was a full sized six inch long card with 64Kb RAM and it was priced at $10. Even at that time, megabyte RAM could be had for only slightly more. I've already forgotten when the smaller RAM chips became available and no longer had to go into PCI types of card slots. I'm thinking that the smaller RAM was already being used on 486s and maybe even 386s.

Interestingly, I also bought a boxed version of CorelDraw 8, back when I got Poser 2, and even that older version of CorelDraw is still useful today. Poser 2 is more of a curiosity than anything now. Poser 4 would still be fairly usable even though its capabilities have been surpassed by the newer versions. I've never seen Poser 3.

Not too long ago there was someone on Ebay selling Poser 3 and 4.

Quote - Not too long ago there was someone on Ebay selling Poser 3 and 4.

Now, Poser 4 I could understand because you can still use up to Vicky 3 and all the other gen 3 figures. Poser 4 isn't great at rendering, but if you're good with lights and what not you can do some decent things. I still have it on my machine, mostly to test texture poses. But Poser 2? Lordy...;o)

Laurie

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I though that Poser 2 was on floppy discs :)

I'll have to dig out my old Poser boxes. 1 was on floppy for sure.

Something to concider when finding old items like this and that 64K stick of ram is that there might ACTUALLY be someone out there who's still running hardware old enough to use it and that price might just be a steal for them. I know for a fact that finding parts to repair older computers is getting harder and harder these days.

Attached Link: Nasa searches web for shuttle parts (2002)

I found my P2 box. it is a CD

floppy disks are those plastic cases with the sliding metal piece?  jeez, these macs haven't come with a way to read those for donkey's yrs.  It don't say anything about installation in manual AFAICT.

Quote - ...jeez, these macs haven't come with a way to read those for donkey's yrs.  It don't say anything about installation in manual AFAICT.

My old Quadra 610 at my old job didn't even have floppy drive. And that was MANY moons ago ;o).

Laurie

I still have a floppy drive, i just keep moving it from machine to machine...just in case i want to read some of those old floppies. So I could even buy a copy of poser 1 if it were available. (and not too much) I wouldn't mind seeing that in action, just for the fun of it. Unless that comes on 5 inch floppies. Does anyone still have a drive for those? My DML still have floppies she won't get rid of, even though I doubt there's a 5 in drive in the entire town.

Oh btw amazon also have p5 for $449 usd.

I still have some older computers that I've saved in case I ever need to run older programs that no longer work under the new operating systems. That means I have access to floppy drives (3 1/2 & 5 1/4). I'm thinking that memory boards were phased out with 8088 XT computers (essentially the first PCs for DOS/Win1). It's always possible that somebody may still want to keep one of those running for hobby/historical purposes, but I'm not sure that there is any practical reason for doing so. Games, that ran on an 8088 computer, ought to run on 286-486 systems. Those are much more capable computers. They're still antiquated by today's standards, but are fairly capable machines with the older software made to run on them.

For chuckles, I did a search at Ebay and there are XT computers for sale--with prices over $400 on some. A 5 1/4" floppy drive is selling for $60. I can understand buying the drive because somebody may have old disks with data that they want to transfer to newer media (or, in my case, to play old favorite games).

Quote - I still have a floppy drive, i just keep moving it from machine to machine...just in case i want to read some of those old floppies. So I could even buy a copy of poser 1 if it were available. (and not too much) I wouldn't mind seeing that in action, just for the fun of it. Unless that comes on 5 inch floppies. Does anyone still have a drive for those? My DML still have floppies she won't get rid of, even though I doubt there's a 5 in drive in the entire town.

Oh btw amazon also have p5 for $449 usd.

No 5 1/4 floppy, but up until a couple years ago I still had my old trusty Syquest drive with those huge, hard disks...LOL. The thing was, it lasted longer and was more reliable than the zip drive I used to have and even some of the burned cds and dvds I NOW have.

It would be fun tho see Poser 1 or 2 in action, but I think I'd get frustrated REAL quick...LOL. Hell, I get frustrated with Poser 7 daily...LOL.

Laurie

that must be a typo at amazon.  it should read "$4.49" :lol:

I think I have in a cd magazine Poser or Poser 2, I don't remember well, I'll see it.