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Dual 604/233 IBM RS/6000 AHHHHH
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gto47
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May 31, 2006, 06:59 PM
 
I recently acquired one of these beasts. Its a huge workgroup tower that weighs around 100 lbs. Anyway i have heard vaguely that it will run os x but first things first. It doesn't have a video card installed. It has many pci slots and i've tried throwing a pc video card in there which doesn't work. Will a mac video card work or does it need to be a proprietary IBM card? Would also be interested if anyone has osx running on one of these things. Would be fun to get the thing working but i figure its only about as fast as a single g3.
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Jun 1, 2006, 04:40 AM
 
What you have purchased is either an IBM server or a workstation. Since it doesn't have a graphics card installed, I suspect the former. In either case, it's not a Mac, hence closing … 

If you wish to install Linux on it, however, check out SuSE PPC or another PPC-compatible distro.
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Jun 1, 2006, 11:01 AM
 
Mac OS and Mac OS X for PPC can't boot on any non-Apple PPC hardware. They lack the ROMs needed to understand the Mac filesystem and load its kernel.

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