<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>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.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Jonathan</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 16, 2015, at 2:43 PM, Dan Kaiser <<a href="mailto:dank2878@gmail.com" class="">dank2878@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">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.)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Depending on what you are trying to accomplish, they have some horsepower. (And look pretty too.)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature">-Dan<br class=""><br class="">"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle</div></div>
<br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Rick Troth <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:rmt@casita.net" target="_blank" class="">rmt@casita.net</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have an iMac that I got from a friend.<br class="">
Put Ubuntu on it and then 'chroot' the home-brew stuff. Works.<br class="">
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Interestingly, the guys at the office had a need for some PPC Linux<br class="">
stuff. I was able to crank out POC and verification. But now ... maybe<br class="">
do more? But if we do more, "they" will want to do it on a company-owned<br class="">
machine. Duh. I get it. (And I don't really want the liability.)<br class="">
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Anyway ... what kind of machine would y'all recommend? It's not needed<br class="">
for production work. It's not even a primary architecture. (Does need to<br class="">
be 64-bit, so has to be a fairly recent box.)<br class="">
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Thanks.<br class="">
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