Jafro

...but I think it's cool...

How many 8 year old PC's run XP? None? Oh yeah... Well, my 8-year old mac is running OS X Server 10.3.4.

Since my birthday (June 21) when I bought my new laptop, I've been contemplating what to do with my old PowerMac 9500. Old ain't exactly the word. Normally when you refer to an 8-year old computer, it's being crushed by bulldozers in a landfill. Not mine.

I can't believe it works. Over the years I've upgraded things on it. I updated the processor in 2000, the video card in 2002, and recently I've added some other items that have allowed me to run OS X Server 10.3.4. The kicker is that it STILL has the original logic board. That's the one item that I would expect to limit the possibility of the following pictures existance.

Here's what's in it.
• Standard 50mhz logic board (6 PCI slots, 12 RAM slots, 3 SCSI busses)
• NewerTechnology 500mhz G3 proc upgrade with 1MB of backside cache
• Ultra SCSI Seagate Baracudda 9GB 7200 RPM
• Standard SCSI Seagate Baracudda 4.2GB 7200 RPM
• Sonnet Tempo ATA-133 dual-channel controller
• 250GB Maxtor 7200 RPM HD with 8MB cache
• ATI Radeon PCI for Mac (32MB variety)
• 384 MB of RAM
• Netgear FA311 10/100 PCI Ethernet card
• Belkin PCI FireWire adapter

The NetGear and Belkin cards are not advertised as being Mac compatible.

NewerTech went out of business in 2000. That's before the developer's preview of OS X was released. The proc is totally unsupported and is running on someone else's drivers... and surprisingly it works.

The Library files for the PCI Radeon have been hacked so Quartz Extreme graphics work. Quartz Extreme is only supposed to run on AGP hardware which my Mac can't support.

The EPROM on my logic board can't support drives larger than 133MB due to the fact that this Mac uses 24-bit addressing to access drives. The Sonnet card got me past that limitation. I have the 250GB volume formatted and mounted with a single partition. Massive.

It needs RAM. I still have 8 DIMM slots left, but I'm at the point where I hate spending money on it. I love my PowerBook.

Here are some pics in case you didn't make it through all this text. Hard to read this from my 1/2 megapixel camera, but the build date is 4/25/96 at 7:00 PM.

ED9man

I like the story in your signature with the hatch
A new header will probably free up 10 hp.

RB

Just proves the advancements of OSX is just light years ahead if its time

Bl@ck

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mobstersmoke

oh no the whores are coming board up the windows

Bumnah

my old 266 celeron ran windows xp

it's got 128 megs of ram
a 2 meg video card card

but it's also scsi based

mac's, bah!

Jafro

Hrmm.... 10 hp? I dunno. I'll have to replace a lot more than the header. I'm not using the CX manifold, I'm using the DX and it's substantially larger than what it had before. But past the manifold, my exhaust is made out of parts from 3 different cars welded together. I spent $9 on it, and the whole swap gave me an extra 35hp or so at the wheels without really adding any displacement.

I need a new gearbox more than anything. CX gears are fun, but 2 2 2 tall.

DakarM

IBsomeonesaystheycanrunlinuxina486dx33mhz:rick:

Jafro

What's REALLY funny about that is that UNIX dates back to 1954. And it's still more efficient than Windows to this day. Apple's on to something.

Future releases of Windows (Longhorn) are supposed to be able to compile and run UNIX and LINUX code. Which strikes me as ridiculous considering how many lawsuits Microsoft has raised against the open-source community. Don't expect them to get it in shrinkwrap until 2008, though.

Derek

oh yea, well I can run linux on my pentium 33mhz, so there!



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