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Restoring an Xserve G5: When Apple built real servers

An Apple Xserve G5 server from 2004 has been restored despite its power supply suffering from the "capacitor plague" that causes components to wear out prematurely. The G5 model was built during Apple's PowerPC era and represents an interesting piece of server hardware history.

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