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Suuure, It’s your kids Powermac G5 gaming station 🙂 I did similar with a 17” white intel iMac for my boys. Granted, it was more to transition them off my actual retro consoles and onto various retro 8bit & 16bit console emus. + it looks cool in their room. Of course my wife looks at me sideways...

I can confirm this. I picked one up for a tenner a few years back as not working and this was the issue. Pulled it apart and re soldered the jack and all was well- easy, straight forward fix.

This is a fitting challenge with the classic mac fever around these parts. https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=3sgp4ps7

Man, that is wild. Thank you for puting the data set together. Odd thing is that I have Netac 128gb drives in my pmg4 quicksilver & PMG5 a1117 running Sorbet & 10.5.8. How random that it does not work in your a1047 or the others you noted. I would have guessed otherwise. I should buy more of...

WTH. I go to buy a shirt and there are no fatty sizes? What sort of fat shaming hipster nonsense is this? and to think I was going to wear your shirt to the donut shop. Whatevs

I think Drake misspelled it. I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be little satanimacs jumping out of a B&W of DOOOOOOOOOOOOM.

Is your G5 the A1047 PCIX model? With the SATA SSD, maybe a compatibility issue or perhaps the SSD is bad? Sounds like the port works ok with a spinner on the end but when you stick the SSD on, it gets grumpy. I'd test the SSD in another box and see if it boots fine into the restored image of...

I think I would have left mine broken just for ease of access :) Trying to get that thing off without breaking a tab seems like an almost impossible feat but I can see per wottles reply that you might be able to fish a piece of wire around the clip and then pull back on it enough to release it...

Looks great. 👍🏼

Hi there, thanks! I appreciate the compliments - my wife thinks as you do and shot down the wine cooler. Besides, while Im 6'4" and to me is a great use of space, she's a lot shorter than I so getting to it would be an issue for her. I do really like your point of it blocking natural light, so...

Do you like vintage computing? :geek:

Haha, well I was just asking randomly like some awkward weirdo so entirely possible that you were busy doing other things while I was crushing the weird guy off the street bit. Anyhow, very cool box & thanks so much for hosting it! Also got some great help about my ailing 1702 monitor whose crt...

A cheap $20 120gb SSD will get you up & running assuming the HDD is the culprit which it sounds like. IIRC these shipped with Leopard & run up to elcap. Anyhow, Leopard can be found as a free dmg online. Apple also released mountain lion & lion as free DLs as well so any of those on a flash...

Hi there. 👍🏼 Lotsa knowledgeable & smart folks around here (not me) 😅 welcome.

Certainly not quitting - pragmatic. IMO it is acting very similar to hdd failure - that drive & it’s cable are 15+ years old. The last 08 iMac I worked on had a janky hdd and would boot to unresponsive white and black backlit screens& a quick SSD upgrade fixed that, restored to a backup. You are...

Pull out a firewire cable and utilize target disc mode. Manually pull any files you can find (assuming the hdd is not failing or corrupt) from the target mac onto your functioning destination mac, then reformat & clean install. Leave all that janky BS the previous users left you with. Truthfully...

Stopped by today & had a great time. I got to play Q3A, Unreal, UT, tons of awesome C64 games and got to play with a floppy emu which I think I definitely need for my plus - much better than aging and expensive magnetic media. Picked up a cool cheap mechanical kb (blues) for my son & his iMac...

Surprise surprise, the last section of butcher block arrived. It was 2 inches short - seriously can’t make this stuff up. Technically it fits but jeez. Anhow, moving forward, I Laid on the first coat of food grade oil conditioner on the counters today. Looking good. I’m in the process of...

I like to garden and eat the food I grow. This raised garden bed design is fast & easy to build and is scalable in height dependent on desired height, budget etc. My build costs ran around $188 per bed & should last a good 20-25 years. 2x6x12 = $18*9 4x4x12 = $25 topsoil = $2.50*6 effectively...

Love the red shelves! 🙂