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    PowerMac G4 USB 2.0 PCI card - It boots!

    Okay, this was a really pleasant surprise. I found in a recent sort-out a USB 2.0 PCI card in a box of old stuff. It has a NEC720101 chip, no ROM onboard or anything that would indicate it's a Mac specific card, but I thought as a giggle I'd lob it in the GigE G4 and see what happened. First and...
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    Mystery Serial Number - G4 PowerMac

    I have a wonderful mystery on my hands realting to the GigE PowerMac G4 I grabbed off eBay and am preserving. I am often interested in the Seriel number of Macs because they can be decoded into specs and other details. One of these, on earlier machines, is the build location. The vast majority...
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    G4 Rescue Mission

    If you are following my thread in the Hacks forum you know I embarked on (and have completed) a project to build a Hackintosh in a G4 Graphite case. In order to finish the project I had to pull some donor machines from eBay, but I made a deal with myself that if I did that I'd restore at least...
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    GFource - Sleeper Hackintosh Build

    This thread should probably be titled 'Doing Cruel and Unusual Things to PowerMac G4s - Part I', but hey. Here goes: The Prologue At the beginning fo this year I was looking for a new tablet. My trust Nvidia Shield K1 was very much showing it's age and infirmity. I looked around and there...
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    Sega Dreamcast

    Yeh, Dreamcast with 1 controller, 1 visual memory card (weird things, those), 1 rumble pack and 5 games. Guy I know had it and didn't use it so I asked him how much he'd sell it for. He said 'oh you can have it'. All seems to work fine, apart from occasionally the RF signal to the TV will...
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