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24th Anniversary Macintosh

Published on Sunday, July 27th 2008 and last revised July 27, 2008 at 10:50 am
Classification: Asides • Taxonomy: Apple, Hardware, Macintosh, OS X, Vintage

An Apple Macintosh 512k upgraded to run OS X by replacing the innards with a modern Mac Mini and various supporting components, including a grayscale CRT monitor, an LS-120 floppy disk drive, and a microcontroller-based USB device that interfaces the Mini to the original keyboard and mouse.

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