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@nathall So this can work! I always kind of figured as much, but never bothered to try. I have a stream you can check out if you like old music (I play all sorts of stuff, from 80s classic hits to classical). PM me for a link if interested; I can't post it publicly because I don't have a...

I like that IBM EGA display! It looks rather similar to the CGA display which was also designed to match the 5150 and 5160 (aka PC/XT). I almost had one back in 2017, but it got completely destroyed during shipping, and I haven't been able to afford another one (indeed, I haven't even been...

Right. That was the "hackery" I was alluding to. I forgot about XPostFacto, though. Pretty handy bit of software. c

It'll probably run like trash, but yeah, it should work. I must've had to do something about the memory capacity check in the installer like add another 32 MB for 64 MB total (the official minimum is 128 MB, but the "unofficial" minimum is 64), but once installed, Mac OS X definitely ran in 32...

Incidentally, Lemon Crunch and Key Lime are my favorite sherbets, and Chocolate Mint is my favorite ice cream. c

Vanilla Soy Yogurt Leopard! Chocolate Mint Smoothie Leopard! Key Lime Leopard! Now fully compatible with the Key Lime iBook! Fruit Loops Leopard, available in five delicious flavors! (Strawberry, Lime, Tangerine, Grape and Blueberry). Lemon Crunch coming soon at a shop near you for a...

And I made a typo. That "20 gigabytes" should be "30 gigabytes." c

It is. The Digital Audio is basically a QS with slower CPU options and graphite plastics that resemble the Yikes (B&W G3 with a G4 and no ADB), Sawtooth (improved Yikes with a proper G4-centric architecture, bootable Firewire ports (if I'm not mistaken, neither the B&W G3 nor the Yikes G4 can...

And what are the results of your experimentations? c

I actually can disprove this. Back in 2005 or so, I had Mac OS X 10.1.5 installed and booting on my 266 MHz tray loader iMac, equipped at the time with 32 MB of RAM. Yes, 32 MB! It thrashed the hard drive like crazy and took 10-15 minutes to boot, but it worked! c

I had OS 9 running on a 1.33 GHz 12" G4, and it was decent, but because hardware support was lacking, there was no video acceleration and no power management, so it was rather unuseful as a laptop. I can't remember if sound worked, but It probably did. c

As a challenge, I once tried installing MacOS and Windows side by side on a 30 GB SSD. Yes, 20 gigabytes. That's not a typo! Amazingly, it worked, but there was so little room to spare on the Mac side it was barely usable. I was able to trim down Windows pretty well, though, and If I...

That's very good to know! c

I just remembered that I do also. I completely forgot about it until this thread. It's been a million years since I've last used it, but as I recall, it felt more or less like a somewhat faster, but otherwise ordinary SE. I actually should check it (and my other Macs) out at some point. Poor...

Has anyone actually tried to figure out how NETBOOT works so a modern netboot solution could be made? It would probably be of no use whatsoever, but interesting nevertheless because, unless I'm mistaken, none of the 68k Macs (nor many early PowerMacs) officially supported netbooting (official...

Haha you're welcome! c

Ah, OK. The LQ is the wide format one, isn't it? EDIT: Never mind, LQ is for "Letter Quality", and it's basically an ImageWriter capable of much higher quality prints due to its 27-pin print head (all other ImageWriters, evidently, had a 9-pin head). There was apparently also a wide version...

I might have an extra ImageWriter II if you want one... c

I wonder if any of the source code still exists anywhere? c

Agreed. Especially with these tariffs (and the effective trade embargo they've created), repurposing and upcycling what we already have is going to become even more important because anything else will be unobtanium and extremely expensive. Maybe I'm catastrophising a bit, but with all our...