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Build Your Own PowerPC?

Posted by Cliff on from the why-not? dept.

amokk asks: "Let's assume for a second that somebody would want to take the time and effort to build a Personal Computer but base it on a PowerPC architecture. Besides saying 'Buy a Mac' (I already have one) or 'Buy an IBM server', is there any way of acquirng the individual parts and slapping them together? Why you would want to do this isn't up for debate. Rather, this is one of those 'wouldn't it be neat if...' type of experiments."

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  1. Re:Next Week On Ask Slashdot... by unicron · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "I need an avacado, a snorkel, and a screwdriver."

    "But.."

    "Don't argue with me, man, I've made bongs out of less."

    --
    Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
  2. Re:Next Week On Ask Slashdot... by Contact · · Score: 4, Offtopic
    You may joke, but a hot topic in the UK at the moment is the idea of running diesel engined cars on used cooking fat mixed with a little white spirit.

    This does apparently work (although I'm not sure about the long terms effects on the engine, or performance), and over here, where automotive fuels run to about 5 dollars a gallon, the potential savings are huge - apparently some supermarkets have been running out of cooking oil and have had to impose rationing, and I'm sure that restauranteurs are finding themselves unusually popular...