Saying Hello and Goodbye to an Old Friend

I put an old Mac to work over the break … hadn’t seen Mac OS 9 in a LONG time.

We had an awkward but friendly “hello” and quickly caught up on old times for 2 or 3 minutes. But then we said goodbye. I doubt we’ll ever see each other again.

Now this old G4 is happily running Ubuntu Linux and performing some mundane tasks for me.

Followup: I needed JDK 5 or 6 on this machine and it took me a while to get it going. For the fellow geeks, here’s how I got it: Java 5 SDK running on an old G4 PPC Mac