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While I'm on the subject of Stealth Serial Ports, has anyone ever seen, up close, the G5 version they sold until circa 2011? I’m really curious about how that one works, considering that the modem slot in a G5 is supposedly not connected to a real serial port any more, being rather some sort of...

I have a GeeThree brand G4+ Stealth Serial Port adapter I would like to install in my MDD G4. However, I originally bought it for the G4 tower I had before that one, so it has the flavour of mounting plate that’s designed to sit behind the cutout for a modem jack, not the flavour of mounting...

These are pretty good! I have made nothing like this myself, but I will observe that to fit in with the Sys6/7 era stylistically, they should probably be mostly black and white, with only small amounts of highlight colour. I’m still not sure (after 30 years!) whether I completely agree with...

Come to think about this a bit longer, I believe I was misremembering "gribblies", which I'm pretty sure is not a real word but rather had been made up on the spot for purposes of illustration.

Well, I stand corrected, and a little awed. Very well documented reply!

I've heard the term used to refer to random internal organs, usually after they've been messily removed. It seems like the same sort of naming sense that gave us the `lipo` program for processing fat binaries.

Hah! Yes, I used to do exactly that with FKEYs, which I was irritated to learn had not been promoted to their own filesystem objects the way fonts and sounds were. Come to think of it, I'm not sure I ever did learn what a 'gbly' was. Where should I go to get the official word on that?

I'm not familiar with the internal mechanics of this process, but if it just needs plain old concatenation, `cat` on the command line is for exactly that.

I know 8.1 can _access_ HFS+ media, but I can't recall whether it will _boot_ off of one. The two are not the same. I also seem to recall that bootability varied between the 68k and PPC versions, but I hope I'm wrong about that part.

Yep, it was the PMU. What a relief! Had to zap the PRAM before it would boot afterwards, but all in all, a pretty smooth experience.

I have now tried Mini-DisplayPort-to-HDMI adapters from two different manufacturers, to a complete lack of success. Conversation with tech support from the first company implies their product, which apparently uses off-the-shelf conversion chips, likely puts out a different refresh frequency...

Well, I am just batting 1000 today. After a few minutes’ searching around, I discovered “TestDisk” (https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download). All set to finally get some answers, I plopped the new PRAM battery that arrived a few minutes ago into the machine, hit the power button, and…...

It was the flux all along! Who would have thought? Impressive work! If I ever undertake something similar, I will definitely take your experiences to heart and use sockets on everything.

Well, I screwed up pretty severely. It turns out there were in fact only four physical drives in the machine; the illusory fifth was a RAID group that only had one member – namely, one of the drives that seemingly wouldn’t mount. In the mistaken belief that there were five physical drives, and...

Further oddness… According to Disk Utility, the machine contains five hard drives, of which only three will mount – even though it avers there are no problems whatsoever with either of the other two. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to address that problem? It looks like some of the...

Well, you guys were ALL correct about various things :¬) I was able to boot into the system picker, which was likewise replicated five times across the width of my display, whereupon the machine revealed itself to have been trying to boot from a (seemingly) nameless volume that, after...

I recently tried to fire up a Mirror Drive Door G4 that hadn’t been powered on in a very long time. Alas, it booted to a blank white screen with a grey circle-with-backslash, a shape familiar to most of us from “No Parking” signs and the like. (Weirdly, the shape was repeated five times across...

I bought a SSD for my 2004 PMG5 a few years ago. Other World Computing, very good brand, works great... but there's a weird and very noticeable delay before it responds to any given access, so the actual speedup over spinning rust is minimal in most scenarios.

I have a Power Mac G5 tower (model ID PowerMac7,3) with a Radeon 9600 XT video card. Whenever the room is not uncomfortably cold, if the video signal it puts out is above a certain average brightness, that signal cuts out unpredictably, as often as every couple of seconds in the worst case. On...

Ah, so it’s supposed to flash like that? Good to know. Thanks for the feedback! I was interested by your observations about the thermal paste. I wouldn’t have thought it would make that much difference, but now that I’m actually contemplating it, it makes sense that 20 years of very high...