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Veronica Explains bringt ein neues Video, wie man Linux auf einen alten 90'er Jahre #PowerMac installiert. Da musste ich an meine Erfahrungen mit dem PowerMac G5 denken. Da hatte ich nach dem #OSX eine ganze Zeit lang #Gentoo Linux drauf laufen. Das hat mir am Anfang echt viele graue Haare gebracht. 🧓🍏🐧
Aber last not least lief es dann sehr flott auf der alten Kiste, bis mit dann das ständige Kompilieren zuviel wurde und ich die Hardware verkaufte.
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https://www.europesays.com/pl/331532/ Mac Pro wychodzi ze sprzedaży. Nadszedł koniec stacji roboczych od Apple, które pojawiły się prawie 20 lat temu #apple #Intel #komputer #M2Ultra #MacPro #Nauka #NaukaITechnika #NaukaTechnika #PamięćRam #PL #Poland #Polish #Polska #Polski #PowerMac #Science #ScienceAndTechnology #ScienceTechnology #ssd #Technika #Technology #Thunderbolt4 #WycofanieZeSprzedaży #xeon #ZestawyKomputerowe
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Look, I made another loop for #loops! #powermac #powermacg4 #powerpc #vintagemac #retromac #retrocomputer #retrocomputing #retropc #vintageapple #retroapple #oldcomputer #oldmac #mac #apple #tiktok
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The Mac Pro has been discontinued.
"It’s the end of an era: Apple has confirmed to 9to5Mac that the Mac Pro is being discontinued. It has been removed from Apple’s website as of Thursday afternoon. The “buy” page on Apple’s website for the Mac Pro now redirects to the Mac’s homepage, where all references have been removed.
Apple has also confirmed to 9to5Mac that it has no plans to offer future Mac Pro hardware."
https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/26/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro/
#Apple #Mac #MacPro #AppleSilicon #tech #technews #Applenews #PowerMac #endofanera #macOS #Macintosh #hardware #computinghistory
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So, planning on participating in #MARCHintosh this year -- broke my old #PowerMac #G3 out of storage, and it's sitting on my desk... But the only monitor I can find with a VGA socket doesn't have a power adapter... So that's the last missing piece...
The plan for this year is to back up the internal IDE drives to a CF->IDE adapter, then image the disks and throw them onto my backup server (ZFS zraid3!) for safekeeping. I have a 128GB CF card, but only 70GB of drives... So with the rest, I'll try and mirror some archives from MacintoshGarden, etc.
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So, planning on participating in #MARCHintosh this year -- broke my old #PowerMac #G3 out of storage, and it's sitting on my desk... But the only monitor I can find with a VGA socket doesn't have a power adapter... So that's the last missing piece...
The plan for this year is to back up the internal IDE drives to a CF->IDE adapter, then image the disks and throw them onto my backup server (ZFS zraid3!) for safekeeping. I have a 128GB CF card, but only 70GB of drives... So with the rest, I'll try and mirror some archives from MacintoshGarden, etc.
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So, planning on participating in #MARCHintosh this year -- broke my old #PowerMac #G3 out of storage, and it's sitting on my desk... But the only monitor I can find with a VGA socket doesn't have a power adapter... So that's the last missing piece...
The plan for this year is to back up the internal IDE drives to a CF->IDE adapter, then image the disks and throw them onto my backup server (ZFS zraid3!) for safekeeping. I have a 128GB CF card, but only 70GB of drives... So with the rest, I'll try and mirror some archives from MacintoshGarden, etc.
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EDIT: It has found a home.
Free to a good home: A SCSI ribbon cable with connectors for 6 drives. It has 68-pin adaptors on two and a terminator at the end. :apple_inc:
#Macintosh #FreeToAGoodHome #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #SCSI #PowerMac
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EDIT: It has found a home!
Free to a good home: A SCSI ribbon cable that accommodates three drives. The way it's folded on itself made me think it came out of a 7600, but I don't think the space between the drive connectors would allow it to reach all three SCSI bays. 🤔 :apple_inc:
#Macintosh #FreeToAGoodHome #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #SCSI #PowerMac
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EDIT: They have found a home!
Free to a good home: TWO more Asante PCI 10/100 ethernet cards. :apple_inc:
#Macintosh #FreeToAGoodHome #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #PowerMac #Networking #Ethernet #PCI
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EDIT: It has found a home!
Free to a good home: An Asante PCI 10/100 ethernet card. I used it in a PowerMac G3. :apple_inc:
#Macintosh #FreeToAGoodHome #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #PowerMac #Networking #Ethernet #PCI
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EDIT: It has found a home!
Free to a good home: An AppleDesign ADB keyboard. :apple_inc:
#FreeToAGoodHome #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #PowerMac #Macintosh #Apple #ADB #keyboard
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EDIT: It has found a home.
Free to a good home: A Umax ADB keyboard with hardwired cable and two ADB ports (one on each end). :apple_inc:
#FreeToAGoodHome #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #Umax #PowerMac #MacClone #Macintosh #ADB #keyboard
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This was my first #mac. It’s been a part of my collection for around 13 years now! #vintagemac #oldmac #vintageapple #oldcomputer #powerpc #powerpcmac #powermacg4 #powermac #macosx #macosxtiger #spacehey
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Is there any reason why an opensource project these days should still care about 20 year old hardware and it not supporting anything more recent than Java 8?!?
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Ok, had a weekend off and relaxed yesterday night doing some retro computing.
Installed #MacOSXServer #Tiger on the old #PowerMac #G5. Luckily I remembered that this machine does boot from a USB pen drive when ones uses the right commands in #OpenFirmware.Services started: #blojsom and the #WebObjects server.
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Why would a computer (specifically a #G4 tower) power off when a DVD is put in the drive? I'm trying to figure out what's happening to the power supply in this situation that's causing the behaviour, because it's probably a pretty good clue as to what I did wrong when I rewired it that's also causing it to turn off after running for 15-20 min.
And it's not the drive itself. I swapped in another one just to eliminate that variable. I'm fairly certain it's something wrong with the way I rewired the ATX power supply to adapt it to Apple's weird non-standard pinout.
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Why would a computer (specifically a #G4 tower) power off when a DVD is put in the drive? I'm trying to figure out what's happening to the power supply in this situation that's causing the behaviour, because it's probably a pretty good clue as to what I did wrong when I rewired it that's also causing it to turn off after running for 15-20 min.
And it's not the drive itself. I swapped in another one just to eliminate that variable. I'm fairly certain it's something wrong with the way I rewired the ATX power supply to adapt it to Apple's weird non-standard pinout.
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Why would a computer (specifically a #G4 tower) power off when a DVD is put in the drive? I'm trying to figure out what's happening to the power supply in this situation that's causing the behaviour, because it's probably a pretty good clue as to what I did wrong when I rewired it that's also causing it to turn off after running for 15-20 min.
And it's not the drive itself. I swapped in another one just to eliminate that variable. I'm fairly certain it's something wrong with the way I rewired the ATX power supply to adapt it to Apple's weird non-standard pinout.
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Why would a computer (specifically a #G4 tower) power off when a DVD is put in the drive? I'm trying to figure out what's happening to the power supply in this situation that's causing the behaviour, because it's probably a pretty good clue as to what I did wrong when I rewired it that's also causing it to turn off after running for 15-20 min.
And it's not the drive itself. I swapped in another one just to eliminate that variable. I'm fairly certain it's something wrong with the way I rewired the ATX power supply to adapt it to Apple's weird non-standard pinout.
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No idea. Mounted the small rubber shroud for the rear fan from the Quicksilver, as opposed to the plastic shield that holds the fan in the Digital Audio, and I've mounted a 120mm fan on top pointing out, Intel cooler style. I don't honestly think heat is the issue, but I'd like to at least eliminate it as a variable (or hey, maybe it is the issue, and I can prevent losing another night to fighting with yet another cursed G4).
Starting to once again lose my taste for playing with old Macs (though there's always the possibility that it's a side effect of the modified ATX power supply).
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It is entirely possible that what is actually happening is it's going to sleep, and then failing to wake up (which I think is a side effect of the modded ATX power supply). I've now slid the sleep timer in the Energy Saver panel to Never, but I'm too dumb and impatient to wait and see if this solves it, and I currently have OS9.2 installing to the IDE drive. Wish me luck, lol.
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IT WORKED.
I did film the moment of truth, but all that happened was the same thing as before, the power button lit up for as long as I held it down with my finger. So I stopped filming, and then several seconds later, I heard what sounds like a fairly whiny unhealthy fan spin up, and I looked down and saw the obnoxiously RGB Corsair keyboard lit up.
I assumed nothing was happening, so didn't hold Cmd+Alt+O+F long enough to get into open firmware and boot via USB, so that's why I'm just getting the icon, I assume.
Actually now that I think of it, wouldn't it be a question mark icon if it were a matter of an HDD with no bootable OS? It might just be slowly booting off the USB as we speak cause I'm still seeing smiley Finder folder icon. ???
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Was about to test the newly modified ATX PSU in my Quicksilver G4... before I realized it was missing the CMOS battery (I forgot what Apple calls this, but it's the 1/2 AA battery that lives on the mobo... whatever). Why I bought a new battery for it, then realized the PSU was going to need replacing before it would work, and then removed the brand new battery I bought is a mystery to me. Maybe I thought I'd be holding onto it long enough to worry about the battery leaking a corroding the board? (iirc it was a lithium battery though, so honestly no idea what was going thru my head... or where I stored it in the meantime lmao)
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Okay I'm in a little over my head. If somebody who knows more about electriconics/power supplies could help clear up my confusion, it would be very much appreciated!
I'm following the atxg4.com guide to modify an ATX power supply to work in my PowerMac G4 Quicksilver 2002 (link: http://atxg4.com/quicksilver.html), but it is a little light on details, and some of it is just straight up ambiguous (at least to me lol). I can whip up a MIDI controller or an arcade stick with a microcontroller, but that's more programming than circuitry; my actual #EE knowledge is novice hobbyist at best.
Anyway, I *think* I got the "connect the +3.3v line to the Power OK" part right? I interpreted their words + the pinout diagram to mean that I twist them together and they go together into Pin 8? Again, a bit ambiguos; because pin 8 is grey on the ATX pinout, and orange on the Quicksilver pinout, but it sounds like I'm being told to put grey AND orange into pin 8? (See below photo for current status)
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Since I was a kid, I would download Apple TV ads that Apple would put on their website. Anyway, here's another.
This one is called "Elope" and it is for iDVD. It's pretty great!
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Finally there, an amalgamation of two #Apple #PowerMac G4 Sawtooth systems. Running OSX and #OS9 side by side.
Sonnet Encore/ST 1.8Ghz G4 7447a
384MB RAM
128GB Samsung SSD
ATI Rage 128
USB 2.0 Card
20x Liteon DVDRW drive
Zip 100Next is a better graphics card and more RAM. #RetroComputing