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MAC PowerPC & A4000
« on: January 15, 2004, 11:53:02 PM »
This is probably a stupid question, but I'm bringing a PowerPC Apple MAC home from work tomorrow (it was destined for the bin) and am wondering if anything would be worth salvaging to be used in my A4000, in particular the PowerPC chip...

Any hacks or anything like that which I could use to give my A4000 cheap PowerPC capability? Possibly using a CyberStorm MkIII...  :-?

Failing that, I might just put it on eBay...
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Re: MAC PowerPC & A4000
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2004, 01:59:22 AM »
I`ve heard for a hack using a G3 on a CSPPC. The G3 should be pin-compatible with the 604e. Is anybody here to confirm this?

P.S. The guy who did this burnt finally the CPU, although it worked for a couple of hours...
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Re: MAC PowerPC & A4000
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2004, 02:14:31 AM »
You could use it to run Mac software.

I know, it's a bit 'out there'! Me and my crazy suggestions. ;-)
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Re: MAC PowerPC & A4000
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2004, 04:14:57 AM »
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You could use it to run Mac software.


Not if it doesn't work  :-P
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Re: MAC PowerPC & A4000
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2004, 04:48:36 AM »
I think just like on Amiga PPC boards, the PPC on a Mac is surface mount.  Probably not easy to scavenge... and even if you did, even harder to re-use.

I have an old PowerMac 7200 I saved from a junkbin.  Not much of use on them.  Some older Macs had SCSI CD ROM drives and SCSI HDs to steal and re-use.  Barring that, not much to scavenge, really.  The RAM and floppy drives aren't compatible with too much.  At least not on the pre-G3 PowerMacs.

Best bet, if you don't want to trash it outright...  run PPC linux.  If you can add an extra NIC, it would make a nice firewall, or something.
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