Thinking Different, Thinking Slowly: LLMs on a PowerPC Mac

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.

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