![]() ![]() ![]() Along the way, as I solve problems and learn things of interest, I will document them here for the benefit of others who, like me, share a fascination with vintage Macs. This blog charts my travels through “vintage Mac land”, where long forgotten problems crop up daily (what WERE the Type and Creator codes for that application anyway? □ ). My favorite? The G4 Cube, hands down – the Cube defines style and innovation. 27″ iMac and the latest addition to the collection and my new “daily driver”, an M1 Max equipped Mac Studio. Highlights from my current collection include a Macintosh Classic, a Macintosh SE, a Quadra 660AV, a Quadra 840AV, a Power Macintosh 7500/100 (upgraded with a 350 MHz NewerTech G3 Accelerator), a Power Macintosh 7300/200 (upgraded with a Sonnet 500 MHz G3 Accelerator), a PowerMac G3 All-In-One (the Molar Mac), a G4 Cube (upgraded with a 1.2 GHz Sonnet G4 Accelerator), a 2.3 GHz Dual Core PowerMac G5 (my first personal Mac), and the last of the G5s, a 2.5 GHz G5 Quad. ![]() Years ago, nostalgia for the old Macs I had used at work took hold of me, and I have been acquiring and restoring selected Macs ever since – typically ones that are the same model as, or very similar to, the ones I had at work. I purchased my own personal Mac for the first time in 2006, and haven’t looked back since. This remained the case until 1997, when in a particularly misguided move, the company chose to replace ALL of its Macs with PCs (Windows 95 was deemed “good enough” and PCs were less expensive). It also has links to older releases of XPostFacto, and many users have reported best luck using Mac OS X 10.3.x with XPostFacto 3.1, available through a link in the "History" section of the main XPostFacto document.I started using Macs back in 1986, when the original Macintosh became my company’s first choice for creating overhead projector slides (remember THOSE?). If you intend to proceed anyway, you should print out and read the main XpostFacto document, which has installation instructions. But Apple has not tested this additional software and does not support XPostFacto or the running of Mac OS X on your pre-G3 machine. You may shut down, restart, and update your computer as if it were intended to run Mac OS X. Once installed, you need not run XPostFacto at all on a regular basis. Read it thoroughly, as some items may preclude the easy use of other items: There is a compatibility chart at the "some older machines" link on the page below. With some extra programming and pre-loading of some components included in early versions of Mac OS X, certain later versions could be made to work on certain Hardware. The developer of XPostFacto noticed that the main stumbling block was getting the thing to boot up the first time. The ROMs that contain these routines were introduced at the same time as support for Built-in USB, which Apple uses as a "marker" to help users quickly and easily identify which Macs are supported and which are not. Your Mac's ROM does not contain several important routines required to run Mac OS X. It requires a G3 Processor (which you have added) but Apple does not support aftermarket processor upgrades. Mac OS X 10.3.x is not supported by Apple on your Mac for a number of reasons. ![]()
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