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
Bitslingers-R-Us@geerlingguy I still have an Xserve G4 that caught on fire while it was colocated. It has a Sonnet dual processor 7447a accelerator, and the power circuitry for the second processor went up in spectacular fashion. The burn left marks on the upper case.
Interestingly, the system still works, but I have to boot and run a uniprocessor NetBSD kernel. Trying to bring up the second processor causes the system to crash, which shouldn’t surprise anyone.
I wish I had a place to run it…