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January 15, 2008
How-to: Get your dusty 512K Mac to run OS X
Posted Jan. 15, ’08, 2:00 PM PT by Cyrus Farivar
Category | Geekery
in case Apple’s newest Macs didn’t do it for you, check out Dave Clausen’s amazing hack, where he combined the innards of a Mac mini inside a 512K Mac, and even has the floppy disk still functioning.
Caveat Hacker: “Note that this project involves dangerous high voltage electronics. If you decide to take apart your computer or monitor, and you touch the wrong thing at the wrong time, you could be killed.”
[via Wired]
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