#powermac

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Powermac G4

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Apple PowerMac G3 press photo 1999 (x)

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DFW Retrocomputing Winter 2026 Meetup

Fun old tech on display or for sale at the Winter 2026 Dallas/Fort Worth area Retrocomputing Meeup on the 17th of January, 2026.

This event was presented by the Vintage Computing Collective of North Texas.

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Apple PowerMac 8500 (1995)

The Power Macintosh 8500 is a personal computer designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from August 1995 to February 1997. Billed as a high-end graphics computer, the Power Macintosh 8500 was initially released with a 120 MHz PowerPC 604, and unlike earlier Power Macintosh machines, the CPU was mounted on an upgradeable daughtercard.

Though slower than the 132 MHz Power Macintosh 9500, the first-generation 8500 featured several audio and video (S-Video and composite video) in/out ports not found in the 9500. In fact, the 8500 incorporated near-broadcast quality (640×480) A/V input and output and was the first personal computer to do so, but no hard drive manufactured in 1997 could sustain the 18 MB/s data rate required to capture video at that resolution.

Later, special "AV" hard drives were made available that could delay thermal recalibration until after a write operation had completed. With special care to minimize fragmentation, these drives were able to keep up with the 8500's video circuitry.

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Been looking for a pre 2000 Apple desktop for years and finally hit the jackpot. Got this really good condition Powermac g3 for only 10 dollars. Still has a good amount of the peel off plastic things from when it was bought and it only had a few cracks around the exterior screws (mostly due to old plastics getting brittle) Gonna be a beauty once I clean the insides and put a fresh hard drive in it and a few other upgrades :3