Thinking Different, Thinking Slowly: LLMs on a PowerPC Mac (theresistornetwork.com)

This is neat. Jason Stevens did the same thing in a 1990s-contemporary system… with a beta OS from the early 90s… on a 286 chassis upgraded to a 16-bit bus version of a 486:

https://virtuallyfun.com/2025/01/02/happy-2025/

Took hours to generate a paragraph of text. Be sure to turn up audio to enjoy hearing the hard disk clunking away.

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Ah, one of my favorite computers ever. Totally impractical, but it makes me smile anyway.