Ok this is my powermac 9500 that I have trashed due to me getting a Yosemite. It was good, for about 5 minutes after I got it, then I had to mod it. This is what I came up With. For starters I upgraded to abotu 700mb of ram, added a g3 266 upgrade card, and a usb card. I ran OS X on it for a while using X Post Facto, but then I relised how slow it is, thats why I trashed it, not to mention it was 7.5 years old at the time too. And yes, I did take out the usful stuff like the cold cathode and led fan before i got trid of it.
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Did you cut a hole in the side and use a lexan sheet to make a clear window or just leave it open? I have an 8500 that I'm gonna be screwing around with and it looks like you painted yours black. Got any more pics of the machine before you trashed it?
I could probably dig around and find some more pics, there floating around on the net and my comp, and yes I used a lexan sheet, held in with one of my best friends, hot glue.
Post edited by: ubergeek89, at: 2004/07/24 17:01
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Mobile-2.2Ghtz Core 2 Macbook, 4GB ram, 160GB HDD Server-Dual 1.42 MDD G4, 1GB ram, 4 random hard drives. PC-C2D 2.4Ghtz, Asus Commando, 2Gb ram, 3 hdd's in raid 5, 8800GTS.
Hey ubergeek, it would be really cool if you dug up those pics and wrote up a mod guide for the site. Anyway, looks like a cool mod, regardless if the computer is useful enough to do much.
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I like the look of the 9500's, you could have kept it and made it into a server or something. Also, it could be made into a mac pc. Oh well...I would like to see more of the mod too. -Maestro
Sweet looking machine. I too have a 9500 at home with 256MB RAM but no processor upgrade as of yet. Mine is running Debian Linux just fine, albeit a little slow in X. I was able to install a PC PCI 133 ATA card into it and have Debian recognize it immediatly whereas Mac OS will not. It has a 40GB IDE harddrive in it as well. I am looking to mod the case some in the future as well.
I modded the case of an 8500 slightly (meaning, it has been painted - Blue front/back, black sides/top).
Anyway, looks like a cool mod, regardless if the computer is useful enough to do much.
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