[rescue] Found an old Mac Mini

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Sun Aug 3 20:06:26 CDT 2014


On August 3, 2014 9:05:09 PM EDT, William Barnett-Lewis <wlewisiii at gmail.com> wrote:
>Found a first generation Mac Mini hiding in my boxes of misc computer
>stuff. Still had the vga adaptor so I hooked it up. It's got a 1.25 ghz
>G4,
>1 gb ram, a 40 (37 gb formatted) gb disk, Combo Drive & OS X 10.3.7
>installed. No airport card.
>
>Now what do I do with this old gal?
>
>Perhaps one of the BSDs? It'll run up to 10.5 but my memory is that was
>rather painful with a max of 1 gb ram. OTOH, browsing with anything old
>enough to run on this girl is going to be grim.
>
>Curious little first world problem. I'd like to find some good use for
>it
>or sell it. It would be a shame for the little thing to get recycled.

I always thought that running MorphOS on such a machine would be cool.


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