If I remember correctly, Anything G4 or older has an IDE bus, So you would need to round up an IDE based SSD… KingSpec makes them for laptops. For desktops, there are converters out there that I think would work. Something like:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SATE-to-PATA-IDE-Hard-Drive-Adapter-Converter-3-5-HDD-Parallel-to-Serial-ATA-/381459010587 I believe any mac with an Intel Chip will be SATA. I would focus on G4, G5 and Intel, the “Old World” ROMs in a g3 are hard to work with. With most mac’s is is easy to get to the hard drive to swap it. Check youtube for any particular mac. Mark P.S. Does anyone know of older macs that we can donate to the cause? > On Oct 4, 2016, at 8:18 AM, Paul Flint <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Dr. Mark, > > With your loading of the FOSS OS and Dave-The-Geek actually getting the sound > running on Ubuntu 16.01 on a PowerPC G5, the fact that Apple wants everyone > to throw away all of their old hardware in order to upgrade to OS X Sierra, > shall have a major impact on the technology waste stream... > > So, Dr. Mark, the real question is can we, by upgrading (yes, upgrading... > :^) these legacy Apple systems with Solid State Drives containing a FOSS > operating system keep this equipment out of our landfills? > > This gets me creative juices flowing. I just now registered the domain names > "bakedapples.net" and "bakedapples.org". As Green Mountaineers, we have > several traditions related to the cooking of apples, and despite the fact > that the term "baked" has been associated with certain playful substances > nationwide, or maybe because of it, I wonder if "baking" old apple products > could be a feasible, viable project as you have so cleverly > demonstrated on a small scale. > > Dr. Mark, as you know we, here in Barre, are simple creatures, living in the > cold and dark, spending our days cracking rock. Our ignorance in the area of > Apple computing and processor hardware is profound, mostly because we never > could afford any. So, questions about this project abound. What models of > Apple hardware could be "baked" how hard is it to swap out an SDD on a > particular model (e.g. the Apple "ilamp" G4 :^)? How much customization of a > distribution would be adequate? Is it possible to consider this on a scalable > (maybe profitable?) basis? > > Anyway, your contribution of one each prototype "Baked" Apple G4 and a G5 to > the BOSI Adult Swim has set imaginations in motion, and shown the way. Dr. > Mark, we are anxious to follow your lead. If anyone reading this has any > insight into baking Apples here in Vermont, please respond. > > Many Thanks and... > > Kindest Regards, > > > Paul Flint > (802) 479-2360 > (802) 595-9365 Cell > > /************************************ > Based upon email reliability concerns, > please send an acknowledgment in response to this note. > > Paul Flint, Director > Barre Open Systems Institute > 17 Averill Street > Barre, VT > 05641 > > http://www.bosivt.org > http://family.flint.com/flint > skype: flintinfotech > Work: (202) 537-0480 > > Consilium _ gratuitum .~. > ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) > valet /V\ against HTML e-mail X > quanti /( )\ www.asciiribbon.org / \ numerantur ^^-^^ > > > > On Mon, 3 Oct 2016, Mark Engelhardt wrote: > >> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 16:57:48 -0400 >> From: Mark Engelhardt <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Linux_adult_swim Meeting today, Monday October 3rd, >> 5 PM at 40 Washington Street, Barre Vermont >>> On Oct 3, 2016, at 1:12 PM, Paul Flint <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> As Apple moves away from the PowerPC based systems, and even the early >>> Intel based products, I wonder if maybe there is life after Apple for this >>> hardware? Maybe Dr. Mark is onto something? >> >> Paul, >> >> With the recent release of of OS X Sierra - Any computer from Apple made >> before the fall of 2009 is now obsolete! >> >> That is a lot of excellent, well built hardware that will run linux very >> well. They get even better if you put in a small SSD drive! >> >> Dr Mark ;) >> >> >> >> >> >>
