Re: Blinking

[Jerry Kemp]

I still have my G5, and it continues to run strong and without issue to this 
day.  Sorry you had problems with yours.   According to my Apple order form, I 
placed the order 22 August 2005, with arrival in early September.  As I recall, 
it was specifically ordered shortly after the announcement of the move to Intel 
CPU's.


Aside from upgrading RAM and HDD's, no other hardware mods have been done.

The G5 replaced an 8600, that had been used for 8+ years.  That was a great 
system for me too.  Only ever had one problem with the 8600.  As I left the 
military, the 8600 was in storage/transport for roughly a month and a half.


When unpacked, I had to "zap the PRAM" to get it going again.

Maybe I have just been luck with my PPC HW.

Jerry



Product #   Product Description  Qty Price   Ext Price
 __  ____    __
 Z0BMPMG5 CTO 2.7 DP1  

 With the following configuration:

 Processor 065-5747  Dual 2.7GHz PowerPC G5
 Memory065-5701  1GB MB DDR400 (PC3200)-2X512
 Hard Drive065-5536  250GB Serial ATA-7200rpm
 Optical Drive 065-5537  16x SD DL(DVD-R/CD-RW)
 Graphic Support   065-5539  ATI Radeon 9650 XT  w/256MB
 Modem 065-5719  None
 Wireless  065-5723  None
 Gigabit Ethernet PCI  065-5734  None
 Fibre Chl PCI 065-5736  None
 Keyboard Language 065-5531  Apple Keyboard & Mouse
 Mac OS Language   065-5543  Mac OS X-Multilingual
 Server Mac OS Language065-5738  None
 Apple Software Applications 065-5796None...
 Spare Characteristic  065-4681  None
 Country Kit   065-5529  Country Kit

On 10/ 9/17 05:15 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote:


G5s were a beautiful piece of hardware.
BUT they were relatively unreliable (soldering, water-cooling, PSU...), and
they are way less powerful that subsequent Intel Macs. Besides, they suck
power like crazy. :-D

I had a 2.7 GHz dual processor with liquid cooling. Great machine, no doubt
about it, and a delight to expand; but IIRC its power consumption was around
300 W (my 2009 iMac 24" consumes just around 100 W, screen included), and
one day the Ram soldering went kaputt.



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Re: Add normal floppy drive to Power Mac G4?

[Jerry Kemp]

As a previous poster already commented, USB floppy drives are the way to go.

And to carry on, As the Apple world frequently chooses to disregard or forget 
its glorious past, here is the WayBack Machine archive of the USB floppy drive 
raid system on a Bondi Blue iMac.




enjoy,

Jerry


On 07/22/16 05:24 PM, JackMacWindows wrote:

Hello,
I have an old Power Mac G4 Digital Audio, and I would like to add on a
floppy drive to read floppy disks I may find floating around. So I
purchased a floppy drive on eBay, but I realized that it has a normal
floppy drive connector. Is there any way I could connect this drive to my
G4 without buying a new drive or making this external? I did not get this
Mac with a Zip drive, so I do not have anything to replace in the 3.5" bay.
Note that I have a budget of $25 on this floppy drive project.
Also, if I can get this working, is there anywhere I could get a Zip drive
bezel? I would not like to have to a) drill into my blank bezel, or b) have
no bezel on.
Thanks,
Jack



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Re: Linux question

[Jerry Kemp]

Apple doesn't use the BSD kernel, Apple uses the Mach kernel, both for
OS X and for the iPhone OS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)

Apple uses the BSD userland in OS X and a reduced subset of the BSD
userland on the iPhone.

I understand that many iPhone jailbreakers install a full, replacement
BSD userland as part of the jailbreak process.  Please correct me on
this part if you have more details.

Jerry


On 11/15/12 03:29 PM,
 

 
 Apple Inc chose to encrypt its copy of the BSD kernel, but knowledgeable
 hackers soon discovered the decryption key, often termed The Poem, which
 allows a Hackintosh to decrypt Apple Inc's OS X kernel. ANY OF THEM!
 

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Re: Car computer

[Jerry Kemp]

Check out this:

http://members.shaw.ca/infonic/icece/

http://bact.blogspot.com/2004/06/sun-e450-as-car-audio.html

If this guy can get a Sun E450 working successfully in his ricer
minivan, there is no reason a G4 won't work in your car.  An E450 is
easily 3 to 4 times the size of an Apple G4.

Jerry


On 05/18/11 00:20, Alexander Gomes wrote:
 I had a thought and a couple of questions.  I was thinking about putting a
 computer into my car for music and gas mileage tracking, things of the like,
 and I was wondering what you all might think of it?  I know my G4 has
 passive cooling anyway, and changing the case and power supply would be the
 biggest thing, but the easiest as soon as I find one that will fit.  I'm
 really wondering what are the thermal limits of them?  How well do you think
 it will fair?
 

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Re: I am forced to go Intel? Common rant, I guess.

[Jerry Kemp]

What happened to Yellow Dog Linux PPC?

At least at some point in the past when Apple was still on PPC, that was
the Linux to run, if you needed to run it on Apple hw.

Jerry


On 05/10/11 15:58, Alex Barnes wrote:
 PPC linux has terrible 3rd party support. Most versions of software say linux 
 but don't specify that it's x86 or x64 only. You can pull it off though. 
 You'll need Debian Linux as it has the best PPC support.
 On May 10, 2011, at 2:08 PM, imrazor wrote:
 


 On May 10, 1:46 pm, Doug McNutt dougl...@macnauchtan.com wrote:

 Give some serious consideration to using ubuntu Linux on a used or 
 otherwise cheap Intel machine.

 If the OP wants Flash, Linux PPC is not the way to go. Last time I
 tried Ubuntu on a G5, Flash support was horrible. Had a lot of trouble
 with Bluetooth as well, though my Radeon 9700 was surprisingly
 functional.

 Eric
 

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Re: Any keyboard key cleaning suggestions? (NOT involving a dishwasher!)

[Jerry Kemp]

If you truly have yellowing computer components, and they are not just
stained by spilling pop on them or something like that, you need Retr0bright

http://retr0bright.wikispaces.com

Jerry



On 04/28/11 14:37, iJohn wrote:

 STUFF DELETED

 Usually I would just soak the keys in water dosed with dishwasher
 soap. But some of these keys are very yellow. Not sure what caused the
 yellowing and I'm also not sure what I might do to (safely) try to
 make them whiter? I keep thinking just throw them in a bleach solution
 and see what happens But that's only because I'm essentially a
 complete idiot. . ;-)
 
 Got any suggestions on how to gently get whiter whites for my keyboard
 keys? (Maybe I should try soaking them in an OxiClean solution? :-)
 
 
 -irrational john
 

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