[colug-432] PowerPC hardware recommendations

[Jonathan Ayers]

Regarding the used G5 Mac Pros, you may want to look at that used computer store up next to Microcenter on bethel.  They always seem to have a few mac pro’s from the PPC days laying around the place.

Jonathan

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>> On Sep 16, 2015, at 2:43 PM, Dan Kaiser <dank2878 at gmail.com <mailto:dank2878 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> My only experience with PPC has been old Macs as well.  (In fact I'm still running a local ownCloud server for all my data backup on a G4 Mac Mini.)
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>> I had two G5 Power Macs. The ones with dual processors are 64 bit.  Obviously not in production any longer, but they are still frequently available on Craigslist or eBay.  I had early, single core versions but they could hold 16 GB ram.
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>> Depending on what you are trying to accomplish, they have some horsepower.  (And look pretty too.)
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>> -Dan
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>> "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
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>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Rick Troth <rmt at casita.net <mailto:rmt at casita.net>> wrote:
>> I have an iMac that I got from a friend.
>> Put Ubuntu on it and then 'chroot' the home-brew stuff. Works.
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>> Interestingly, the guys at the office had a need for some PPC Linux
>> stuff. I was able to crank out POC and verification. But now ... maybe
>> do more? But if we do more, "they" will want to do it on a company-owned
>> machine. Duh. I get it. (And I don't really want the liability.)
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>> Anyway ... what kind of machine would y'all recommend? It's not needed
>> for production work. It's not even a primary architecture. (Does need to
>> be 64-bit, so has to be a fairly recent box.)
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>> Thanks.
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>> -- R; <><
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