June 2nd marked one year since a work colleague gave (yes, gave) me a Power Mac G5 computer – my first working Macintosh system and, of more interesting note, a specimen of the last generation of PowerPC based Macintosh computers. With me being the kind of tech enthusiast I am the machine was naturally a …
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Installing “Classic” On My Power Mac G5 – The Hard Way
This article is going to be written presuming you at least know a bit about the history of the Macintosh and Mac OS X in the early years. If not, I’ll leave some links for reading in the article, but I’ll hope to explain things well enough that it all makes sense on that alone. …
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An Unexpected Entry Into The World Of The Macintosh – Part 4 – So, What Can I Do With The G5?
In the previous article, I went over the gist of how I fixed a small problem with my “new” PowerMac G5 – the lack of a boot chime. After a few days of really working with the machine and trying to figure out the reason, I would find out it was really something as simple …
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