So, the Genesi PPC box arrived in almost perfect condition. It was sitting packed in a box this whole time, so there was barely even any dirt in it or around it. It booted right up, and I got the data off it. It’s a very quiet box. Since it has 2 ethernet ports on it, it’ll become my new dns/dhcp server etc.
As for my athlon box, the CPU fan came loose and fell right off. So did the memory stick. So we had to go to a computer store to get a tube of Arctic Silver (last one!). Once I reformat the PPC and start the hardened gentoo install on it, I’ll start repairing the athlon XP. I hope it at least boots.. If all goes well, I’ll upgrade to kernel 2.6 on it (I had been holding off because the attempt I’d tried failed — due to evms1->evms2 issues), and use it as a media server and print server.