Show threadDavide BucciMar 9
Je suis très content que le #PowerMac est allé aujourd'hui à @MonniauxD, il est dans des très bonnes mains et restera fidèle à sa vocation.
Justin DerrickMar 4

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.

Davide BucciMar 1
Y a-t-il des passionné.e.s d’anciens ordinateurs #Apple sur #Grenoble ? Je donne un #PowerMac G4 400MHz avec son écran cathodique. Il manque le disque dur et l’alimentation originale a été remplacée avec une alimentation de PC. J’avais monté un convertisseur DC/DC pour obtenir les 28V pour l’écran. C’est une très très belle machine, mais je ne l’utilise pas et elle prend trop de place chez moi. #retrocomputing EDIT : merci beaucoup ! L'ordinateur ira dans des excellentes mains !
Show threadDesertFOXFeb 27

@janmontag Der PowerMac G5 ist einfach toll! Ich hatte jahrelang den Intel Nachfolger, den Mac Pro 4,1 in seinem großen Aluminium Tower. Das Design war einfach zeitlos schön. Hab inzwischen nur noch einen Mac mini M4 als einzigen Mac übrig. Der hat mittlerweile aber vermutlich mehr Leistung als der alte, große Mac Pro.

#Macintosh #Macmini #PowerMac #Apple

Show threadPete OrrallFeb 20

@rl_dane @Zenie

In 2014, my uncle gave me his old #PowerMac #G5 as he bought a new #Mac for pro video work. There was some kind of hardware issue with it, IIRC.

I had one helluva time getting #Debian installed on it. It kept failing to install the boot loader, which wasn't #GRUB. Anyway, I figured I would install #FreeBSD. It installed fine, booted fine, performance was fine, NIC supported, but....

It was a Tier 2 architecture. At that time FreeBSD, while supporting multiple ISAs, prioritized them in terms of support with x86-64 being Tier 1. Tier 2 doesn't have nearly the same level of support from the FreeBSD team.

In my case with the G5 only ports, not packages, were available. EVERYTHING had to be compiled and installed. Aside from some shells and other CLI tools, builds took ages and often failed.

Here's more info about the tiers.

https://docs-archive.freebsd.org/doc/7.3-RELEASE/usr/share/doc/en/articles/committers-guide/archs.html

N95 subnet mask 😷Feb 20

I've posted all the hardware I'm giving away for now, so please scroll back and let me know if you want anything that's still unclaimed. If it was posted on or after December 9th and doesn't have an EDIT at the top saying it's been claimed, it's still up for grabs!  😆

#Macintosh #FreeToAGoodHome #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #PowerMac

N95 subnet mask 😷Feb 17

EDIT: It has found a home!

Free to a good home: The drive sled for the 5 1/4" bay of a PowerMac. It can also accommodate a 3 1/2" drive.  

#Macintosh #FreeToAGoodHome #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #PowerMac

N95 subnet mask 😷Feb 17

EDIT: They have found a home!

Free to a good home: Four ATA cables. Two are from PowerMacs and I assume the other two are from PowerComputing clones, but I can't actually remember.

#Macintosh #FreeToAGoodHome #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #PowerMac #ATA

N95 subnet mask 😷Feb 17

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.  

#Macintosh #FreeToAGoodHome #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #SCSI #PowerMac

N95 subnet mask 😷Feb 17

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. 🤔   

#Macintosh #FreeToAGoodHome #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #SCSI #PowerMac