Put a vintage Mac in your pocket!

The majority of vintage Mac enthusiasts focus on restoring original hardware. But here’s a way to get the classic Mac OS experience in a device you can fit in your pocket! Instructions overview for installing Mini vMac on PocketCHIP: Download the .zip file from the GitHub repository and find/make a Mini vMac disk image (links below) Install SSH server if it isn’t already: sudo apt-get install openssh-server Find the PocketCHIP’s IP address: ip addr show wlan0 Connect to PocketCHIP using an SFTP client with credentials chip/chip Create a folder on PocketCHIP and navigate into it Upload the minivmac, and your disk image file On the PocketCHIP, navigate into the folder you made and make minivmac executable: chmod x minivmac Then just run it with ./minivmac (provided that your disk image is named ) Sources and links: biosrhythm blog post about MiniVMac on PocketCHIP: Mini vMac project page: GitHub MiniVMac port for CHIP: Mini vMac premade disk images: “Is This the End for the .?,“ Hackaday: Leftover CHIP inventory photos: :// Suspicion about CHIP selling at a loss: ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: Follow me on Twitter and Instagram! @thisdoesnotcomp ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Music by Epidemic Sound (). Intro music by BoxCat Games ().