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I'm only going to say this once: I find the unrelenting vitriol toward @Xero over his use of AI quite disheartening, especially given his honesty and transparency. And although I don't feel comfortable with AI, I do feel that in the proper context and with adequate guardrails, it can be a...

Gosh! This is a very sinister form of planned obsolescence, isn't it? It's one thing for software to expire (one can always find different, unexpired software (or software for which expiration is no issue) to install in it's place), but it's another altogether for the computer itself to expire...

They're also why so many Dells were unreliable junk from ~2002 through 2006 or so (roughly the same time period as the aforementioned eMacs and iMac G5s). c

Ah, OK! c

HAM mode? c

Oops! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to be rude or condescending!! I don't have a clue how he used it or the impact he made with it, but I'm sure the information's out there somewhere.... It would be interesting to know! c

I don't really get Apple's stupid dumping of models that are only a few years old. With some careful hacking, Windows 10 can run on almost anything dating back to the original Core2 Duos, and 32-bit versions of 8.1 can run on early P4s (I can prove it, too, because I've run it on my...

I have a similar box full of OEM Windows 3.1 disks. I also have, somewhere, a box full of Dell Latitude D6x0 lower RAM slot doors with various OEM XP license keys (I think there may be a couple Vista ones too). I'm sure I can think of more if I bother long enough. c

i realize this is probably quite obvious, but presumably, he made music with it, because he's been a performer and recording artist of note since at least the 70s. c

Ah, yeah, those are considerably less common! Wow, that's a good deal! Dell certainly knows how to make things cheap. Their reputation was tarnished badly by the Capacitor Plague, but they've recovered quite nicely in the years since, I think. c

They're also common as dirt. Or, at least, they used to be. Back about 10 years ago, I could find them for cheap practically everywhere I looked. For example, I picked one up for $5 at a flea market back about then, and then several years later, I found a similar one at the local refuse...

Ah, right, the A1186! I couldn't quite remember what the number was for an Early 2008 and didn't feel like looking it up. Serves me right! c

I still have the A1289 (Early 2008) I've had since new. I think I upgraded it to a Radeon HD 5770, but I still have its original Radeon HD 2600 XT, along with some amount of RAM I can't remember now (he special FB-DIMMs it require were stupid expensive for years, so I was stuck at 4 GB (which...

No worries! I was thinking about changing it anyway. To what, I'm not sure. c

Ah, I forgot about that. Well, what other sort of exotic OS can a PPC-upgraded 540 run? Does Rhapsody require OF? c

Even more radical would be to get some sort of early Mac OS X running on it. One of the DPs, perhaps? And 40 MB of RAM isn't necessarily a problem; Mac OS X 10.0 and 10.1 officially required 128 MB, but could install and run on 64. I once ran it on my Rev C Tray Loader iMac with 32 MB of...

I decided to let OP keep it, to eliminate any confusion. I'll go with a simple "C" until I decide on something else. c

Haha, there's a thread posted by me in that screenshot ("Considering Switch To T-Mobile. Opinions?") I'll agree that I would like to see AppleWorks again. While AW 5 is my favorite version, but 6 would do just as well (plus, with it having already been carbonized, refactoring it for Intel...

Basically, yes! But itself running on an as-yet hypothetical OS with a Mac OS-like UI and all that other stuff I already mentioned. That would be interesting indeed. As I'm typing this post, I realized that A/UX is conceptually very similar to what I'm describing (being able to run standard...

Good questions! I'm not really sure.... I think it would probably be mainly for older Power Macs (I don't think 68k Macs could really handle it), and it would allow for newer software to be ported over relatively easily, to an extent. Let's say it's mainly intended for OldWorld Power Macs up...