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speed wolf speedwolf at gmail.com
Mon Oct 5 15:58:20 BST 2009

Oh yes. Carry on.

Pete



On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:55 PM, mike karthauser <mikek at brightstorm.co.uk> wrote:
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> On 5 Oct 2009, at 15:46, speed wolf wrote:
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>> Why isn't MikeK getting in on this mac hardware history love-fest?
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> eh. i thought i already was?
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>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:25 PM, mike karthauser <mikek at brightstorm.co.uk
>> > wrote:
>>> hi ben
>>>
>>> On 5 Oct 2009, at 14:18, Ben Reed wrote:
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>>>> Does anyone know if I can get away with using a PowerMac G3
>>>> (Yosemite)
>>>> PSU in a PowerMac G4? I have just been given one with a burned out
>>>> psu
>>>> and was going to replace it with one from a from a dead G3 i have
>>>> lying around? My googling skills have let me down on this one so I
>>>> thought I'd give the 'score a shot...
>>>
>>>
>>> not sure if you can tbh. the yikes g4's were nearly the same as the
>>> yosemites and theres probably not much performance difference between
>>> these and the g3s at that clock speed.
>>>
>>> depending on your g4 spec, you might be able to get a processor off
>>> ebay.
>>>
>>> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/820-1282-A-733Mhz-Processor-PowerMac-G4_W0QQitemZ150374900876QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_Apple_Mac_Accessories?hash=item23030ae48c&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
>>>
>>> is for a 733Mhz processor from a quicksilver which is only 20quid
>>> BIN.
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