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help with the most dang unusual power supply made

Ok, from the look of the replacement PSU, you'll only need 5 and 12 volt rails. Any reasonably modern PSU will be powerful enough. The 6 pin connector appears to have 2 12 volt wires, 1 5 volt wire, and 3 grounds. Also, if you have an ATX, rather than AT, power supply, you'll need to mod it in order to be able to turn it on and off(short the single green wire to one of the black ground wires to turn on, you'll want this controlled by a switch).

Edit: Still working on which pins go to which wires, the included pictures are a little too small to make that easy.
 
phisrow was mostly correct... But the devil is in the details.
If you use a standard ATX or one of the smaller form-factors, you will need to use the 5V standby output (usually the Purple wire) - NOT one of the RED +5V wires (if you used a red wire, when you shut it off, you wouldn't be able to use any of the auto-on features as the 5V would be gone too - while the 5V standby stays hot all the time unless unplugged from the wall) , two +12V wires (usuually yellow) and three ground wires (almost always black). You will also need to hook a momentary contact switch (SPST) between the PS_On wire (usually green) and any black wire. That will be your on/off button. You could probably get away with only one yellow wire and two black wires as the load is only 6A, but using all three will be best. Look for a PSU with at least 1.5 Amps on the 5V standby circuit and at least 6 Amps on the +12V rail as that is what the PSU you linked to has.

Good luck.

.bh.
 
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