Post Your PowerPC Setup

[Tummy]

I don't really use it anymore, but my first PowerPC mac was a Twentieth Anniversary Mac. Shown with my latest (12th) Macbook.

I used it as my primary computer in college. Now my 20th Anniversary just lives on our bar and I occasionally fire it up to play CDs. The Bose speakers and sub still sound great.

 

[Gamer9430]

I don't really use it anymore, but my first PowerPC mac was a Twentieth Anniversary Mac. Shown with my latest (12th) Macbook.

I used it as my primary computer in college. Now my 20th Anniversary just lives on our bar and I occasionally fire it up to play CDs. The Bose speakers and sub still sound great.

Mind posting that collection of boxes in the background? It looks like a pretty cool collection!

 

[Simone.m]

The 3 PPCs that I own

-iMac G3
-PB G4 12"
-Power Macintosh 6500\250

 

[eyoungren]

The 3 PPCs that I own

-iMac G3
-PB G4 12"
-Power Macintosh 6500\250

I have the 6500/225!!!!

 

[128keaton]

My corner of my room.

 

[MacCubed]

Here's basically all of my Macs I have set up currently. On my desk, I have my Quad, 15" DLSD, and Lombard. My MBP, which is shown here, takes occasional trips to the desk. Alongside these Macs are my Minolta Autocord and Bolex D8L movie camera, also with my 32" Toshiba TV, and my Xbox 360. In the slightly smaller setup, there is my 2.0 DP G5 and my charging station, there is a 15" Samsung display to compliment the Mac. Where my testing setup used to be, lies my vintage audio setup, it consists of an Ion USB Turntable, a GE Solid State Radio model T1125, and a Logitech iPod speaker dock.

 

[LightBulbFun]

here is an example of part of my setup (you can see my Beige G3 my 2 G5s and part of a sawtooth heh) the G3 beige is now running Tiger btw (also dual booting with OS9) (one of the things I got for my recent birthday was a Mac Radeon 9200 witch not only being the fastest GPU for a g3 beige it also gave me a DVI output to let me hook up my 20 inch cinema display heh)

 

[MacCubed]

here is an example of part of my setup (you can see my Beige G3 my 2 G5s and part of a sawtooth heh) the G3 beige is now running Tiger btw (also dual booting with OS9) (one of the things I got for my recent birthday was a Mac Radeon 9200 witch not only being the fastest GPU for a g3 beige it also gave me a DVI output to let me hook up my 20 inch cinema display heh)
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It seems like G5s make good coasters but having 2 G5s is nice, the electric bill doesn't like it too much!

 

[LightBulbFun]

It seems like G5s make good coasters but having 2 G5s is nice, the electric bill doesn't like it too much!

anything makes a good coaster if your in a rush (nothing like waking up in the morning still half asleep with your drink in one hand spilling all over the place because you cant stand up right LOL)

 

[MacCubed]

anything makes a good coaster if your in a rush (nothing like waking up in the morning still half asleep with your drink in one hand spilling all over the place because you cant stand up right LOL)

Don't worry I'm not a morning person either!! I overhead my parents talking about the electric bill a few weeks ago and they were talking about how it went up a lot, I'm just there like "it wasn't me" but in reality I'm pretty sure it's the Quad!!

 

[LightBulbFun]

Don't worry I'm not a morning person either!! I overhead my parents talking about the electric bill a few weeks ago and they were talking about how it went up a lot, I'm just there like "it wasn't me" but in reality I'm pretty sure it's the Quad!!

its currently 4AM here LOL PowerMac G5s raising the power Bill is the least of my worries when I own light bulbs so powerful they can be seen from space when lit in the right conditions heh

 

[flyrod]

Yesterday, I mounted both Cinema Displays to my desk. I think it turned out nicely. The Power Mac G5 sits below the desk. Excuse the mess.

Very nice! Lots of extra room on the desk now.

 

[swamprock]

I don't have any recent pictures of my current collection, but here's a page with shots of the many Macs I've owned over the past ten years. Once I get my office situated, I'll snap a few pics of my current collection (the one in my signature): http://atari.vg-network.com/macs

 

[jbarley]

Mmm! very impressive.

 

[three]

Got a newer and much larger desk a few months ago, now I've got space to put one or two PowerPC Macs on the desk! In my current rotation is the blueberry 350MHz iMac G3. Still works perfectly. (Tek Syndicate sticker is just sitting there, isn't actually adhered to the screen)

 

[eyoungren]

Got a newer and much larger desk a few months ago, now I've got space to put one or two PowerPC Macs on the desk! In my current rotation is the blueberry 350MHz iMac G3. Still works perfectly. (Tek Syndicate sticker is just sitting there, isn't actually adhered to the screen) View attachment 581764

+1 for the minion to the right of the iMac!

 

[Ih8reno]

My setup currently is mixed with both my 2006 Mac Pro Running OSX 10.6-10-10. As well as my dual 2GHZ Power Mac G5. Attached are some Harmon Kardon Sound Sticks with isub. I also am using my K750 Keyboard and eblue Cobra Junior gaming mouse. Finally I use a 20 inch Cinema Display and love the quality and the look of the monitor.

Thanks to eyoungren the G5 surfs the internet pretty well with his tweaks and Tenfourfox.

 

[Gamer9430]

Rearranged some things on my side desk... This isn't my complete setup, but part of it;

It feels like I have so much more desk space now that the eMac is on the side where the 512ke was. Basically, I just swapped the spots for both machines. The laptops always remain there when charging and not in use. I usually just grab one from the stack when I feel like using it and then I'll put it back into the proper size order

I also had my two PowerBooks and my MacBook all in a row charging, so I took a pretty cool picture;

Have to make room on my desk for the upcoming arrival of my 17in, which of course I'll do my usual write up on once the time comes

 

[bunnspecial]

I'm still in the process of getting my "computer room" at home set up so that I can hopefully at least semi-permanently set up a good part of my collection.

Here's my Quad at work as of three weeks ago

For practical reasons, there is now a 1,1 sitting in this spot, although I have the Quad still hooked up and working. It now sits next to the SGI Octane(albeit temporarily with one monitor)



Here's a B&W in my office, along with a PB 5300C(I was trying to get the Laserwriter working with the B&W, and was using the 5300 for testing)

There's now a Beige G3 with a 1ghz Sonnet G4 upgrade and a couple of other nice upgrades sitting on a second table to the right of the above. It's connected to the other 1680x1050 display that use to be on the Quad.


Once I bring a Cube in, my "Office Mac" collection will be complete, although admittedly I'll probably bring in a Performa 636 and/or IIci just to have some 68K representation. I still need to scrounge up a switch(or heaven forbid, buy one) so that I can get everything on the network. Thanks to internet sharing and the fact that both the MP and Quad have two ethernet ports, I have them "daisy chained" at the moment but can only connect one additional computer past the Quad.

Bringing in 68K Macs will necessitate a Localtalk network springing up also. I've been going around pulling localtalk cables out of walls at work for the past year, so have built up a decent stash of long cables . It's amazing how many there still are around the place, and most folks have absolutely no clue what they are. It's not at all uncommon for me to open a drawer and find an Appletalk box or two also which I can usually get for the asking-I've even come up with a few of the rare DB-9 ones for the 128K/512K/Plus. I even did an office clean-out a while back and found one connected to a Quadra 700 via the even rarer mini DIN-8 to DB-9 cable.

 

[three]

+1 for the minion to the right of the iMac!

Hah, thanks!

 

[Altemose]

@Gamer9430 Be careful about stacking those PowerBooks and pre-unibody MacBook Pros. Often the Apple logo will imprint a warpage into the display if there was weight applied that is visible on light backgrounds.

 

[Altemose]

@Gamer9430 Be careful about stacking those PowerBooks and pre-unibody MacBook Pros. Often the Apple logo will imprint a warpage into the display if there was weight applied that is visible on light backgrounds.

 

[Gamer9430]

@Gamer9430 Be careful about stacking those PowerBooks and pre-unibody MacBook Pros. Often the Apple logo will imprint a warpage into the display if there was weight applied that is visible on light backgrounds.

That's interesting, never heard about that before. Thanks for letting me know. I'll have to figure out an alternative method to charge them convently...

 

[Altemose]

That's interesting, never heard about that before. Thanks for letting me know. I'll have to figure out an alternative method to charge them convently...

I bought one of the filing separators for my laptops to charge in when not in use.

 

[jbarley]

Here's my up and running system, I also have some laptops not shown, 12"PB, 15"PB and a 12"iBook.