Originally a broken Powerbook G4 purchased from a Craigslist listing for $15. A $6 cable and a few hours of tenacity brought this titanium beauty back to life. I just can’t stand letting one of these beauties of industrial design be relegated to the trash heap.
I’m hoping that it finds a new home through eBay. My Macintosh collection focuses on computers with the retro rainbow-colored Apple logo.
The PowerPC is dead. Long live PowerPC.
Baseplate of an iMac G4 purchased off of Craigslist for $20. This machine has a bad logic board. It will be torn apart to refurbish my first Macintosh, the iMac G4 affectionately called “Giga” on my network.
It took days of failed attempts, but I’m now reliving my childhood. I figured out how to write Apple II disk images to those big 5.25 floppies. Sure there are emulators out there. Sure it is a whole lot easier to just download the disk image and play on a new iMac. It just isn’t the same. There is something truly satisfying about hearing those big drives click away. Here is what it took.
- Mac OS 10.5 on an Intel iMac to download the disk images and drop them in a shared folder to go to…
- Mac OS 10.4.9 on a PPC iMac that has support for…
- Mac OS 9.2.2 which can run Bernie II the Rescue, an Apple IIgs emulator that can manipulate the files, which can then be transfered via 3.5 floppy to…
- Mac OS 7.0.1 on a Macintosh Classic which can write to ProDOS disks, which are compatible with…
- Apple GSOS 6.0.1 which runs on an Apple IIgs.
What is the end product for all this hassle? Number Munchers, Odell Lake, Battleship, and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy are just the beginning. Oregon Trail… I’ve got my eyes on you next.