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Restoration of Two Power Mac G4s!
One day, I managed to snag a couple of Power Mac G4 systems from a local computer recycler/reseller, and I thought I should film my progress with cleaning them up and getting them up and running.
Calling this a "restoration" is honestly being quite generous. I just cleaned them, gave them new hard drives, and installed their operating systems. And yes, despite their outward appearance, these two machines are actually quite similar to one another.
00:00 Intro
01:02 The Machines
01:52 Graphite Intro
03:09 Graphite Cleaning
04:48 Graphite Internals & Hard Drive Installation
06:41 Graphite First Power-On
07:20 Failing Optical Drive & Replacement
09:49 Starting Mac OS 9 Install & Disk Troubleshooting
17:54 Mac OS 9 Post-Install First Boot and Brief Exploration
23:33 Quicksilver Intro
24:52 Quicksilver Cleaning
26:33 Quicksilver Internals & Hard Drive Installation
28:03 Quicksilver First Power-On and Mac OS X Installation
32:18 Mac OS X First Login
34:28 Shrek 2 Gameplay Demo
37:16 Quake 3 Gameplay Demo
41:06 Quicksilver Boot Speed Test
42:12 MDD Boot Speed Test & Brief Look
45:07 Graphite Boot Speed Test
46:16 Model Revision Comparison
47:47 Open Firmware Math Shenanigans
48:52 Sun Microsystems Monitor from Thrift Store
50:17 Wrap-Up
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By One day, I managed to snag a couple of Power Mac G4 systems from a local computer recycler/reseller, and I thought I should film my progress with cleaning them up and getting them up and running.
Calling this a "restoration" is honestly being quite generous. I just cleaned them, gave them new hard drives, and installed their operating systems. And yes, despite their outward appearance, these two machines are actually quite similar to one another.
00:00 Intro
01:02 The Machines
01:52 Graphite Intro
03:09 Graphite Cleaning
04:48 Graphite Internals & Hard Drive Installation
06:41 Graphite First Power-On
07:20 Failing Optical Drive & Replacement
09:49 Starting Mac OS 9 Install & Disk Troubleshooting
17:54 Mac OS 9 Post-Install First Boot and Brief Exploration
23:33 Quicksilver Intro
24:52 Quicksilver Cleaning
26:33 Quicksilver Internals & Hard Drive Installation
28:03 Quicksilver First Power-On and Mac OS X Installation
32:18 Mac OS X First Login
34:28 Shrek 2 Gameplay Demo
37:16 Quake 3 Gameplay Demo
41:06 Quicksilver Boot Speed Test
42:12 MDD Boot Speed Test & Brief Look
45:07 Graphite Boot Speed Test
46:16 Model Revision Comparison
47:47 Open Firmware Math Shenanigans
48:52 Sun Microsystems Monitor from Thrift Store
50:17 Wrap-Up