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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...

I see. I wonder if it could be lightly sandblasted or something? c

That's a good point. The glass in the CRTs isn't transparent either. It's kind of this translucent grey. An acrylic lens to match that would actually probably look even more authentic, especially with a matte protector (the glass on the original CRTs isn't high gloss, either, but rather a...

What about DECember? Or SPARCtember? c

Perhaps you could put a matte screen protector on it to cut the glare? As an added bonus, it ought to protect the lens from scratches, as I believe acrylic is fairly soft and gets scuffed and scraped up rather easily (proof: many used Power Mac G4s get their glossy (acrylic) plastics scuffed...

Or perhaps they worked either at an accounting, bank, investment or law firm, or at some other, related industry where privacy is important. c

Agreed. I'm not sure I share your optimism, however, and on behalf of all sensible people in the US, I feel like I need to apologize to everyone else for all the nonsensical whipsawing 😞 Pretty much, unfortunately. Life must go on, no matter how costly it gets. If you have the means, it...

This stinks. I was looking forward to possibly investing in one of these once done, as it seems to be one of the first genuinely outstanding developments I've seen in quite some time. It's on par with @dougg3 's custom ROM SIMM and @bigmessowires ' FloppyEMU (both of which were first developed...

It's kind of ironic that Linux used to be (and in some cases, still is) known for being lighter on resources. GNOME and KDE Plasma seem to both value the "everything and the kitchen sink" approach. Why do I need almost 2 gigabytes of libraries and other supporting bits just to use a modest...