Jeff GeerlingDid you know Apple used to sell rackmount servers?
In today's #MARCHintosh video, I restore an Xserve G5, and explore what made these machines tick—and some reasons why Apple stopped selling them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFnvZ4NWr00
erin sparling@geerlingguy ugh I should’ve gotten you a fun pic of my old xserve table! It still exists, but is no longer serving websites. There was a time when I ran it as a real web host though, hooked up to a WiMAX T1 that was point-to-point broadcast from a dish on the Chrysler Building, straight to my favorite apartment I ever had in Brooklyn.
We let the Flickr account lapse but the direct links still work from 2011:
- https://flic.kr/p/962ABp
- https://flic.kr/p/962BcM
- https://flic.kr/p/965Cfq
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@everyplace Nice! I've considered this, with G5 towers at the sides for legs.
@geerlingguy definitely easier than this solution. My friend who designed the table for me knew someone who fabbed the (iirc) steel legs for us.
Best thing about this:
1) the glass acted as a heat sink, but ther was still a toasty spot for feet during the winter.
2) we only used three drive bays (single volume boot, raid 1 across two), so the 4th drawer was good for tv remotes! This was the G4 version though, not G5, which lost one of the bays.