Thread by @airbornesurfer

Let's take a trip, shall we? I used to use this 2010 iMac at my office before it became hopelessly outdated. It's spent close to the last half decade in storage at the shop (just off the left side of the screen in videos, actually). I'm gonna try to repurpose it

I forgot the account password, so I'm going to reinstall the OS

Silly me! Despite the wallpaper, it already has Mavericks on it

I wiped the hard drive to perform a fresh install of Mavericks. For some reason, I *really* hate entering my Apple ID. Probably because there's always about 8 hoops I have to jump through (yay multi-layered security?) because I refuse to carry the Fruit Fone.

I actually have 2 of these lumbering beasts. Maybe I'll put some flavor of Linux on the other for funsies.

Actually, thinking about it. It'll probably be more useful running a newer version of Ubuntu than trying to force a newer version of OS X.

Still, I'M GONNA HAVE FUN TRYING!!!

Well, THAT took forever....

Well, there's no big 🚫 over the icon. Let's see if we can just run the app

Poop. That would've been TOO easy.

Gonna try DOSDude's patcher and see what happens. dosdude1.com

Basically, this application patches the installers for newer versions of OS X so they'll work on older Mac hardware. I'll have to do this for every incremental update through Mojave.

This is promising....

Thinking aloud: If I do end up putting Linux on one of these, will it still have the chime? I don't think it will, but I don't recall ever trying to find out.

I came to really enjoy the chime. I was *mad* when Apple silenced it with the High Sierra "upgrade".

Pretty sure the chime, then, is part of the OS and not, say, a bootloader? That would take some research.

MUAHAHAHAHA!!!

Seriously, though: I relish when something that *shouldn't* work does. I feel like Alan Cumming in GoldenEye (even if I am just using a publicly available tool written by someone else)

Another half an hour waiting for the OS to install. I'm going to put this aside for the night and get some sleep.

Got up this morning and went to check on the Sierra install, but instead I got a big 🚫. Something obviously went wrong, now to see if I can recover.

"Success! Success! They've done it! They've done it!"

The trick is that you have to use a very specific version of the installer app with the patch--otherwise it will not install correctly. I managed to find a copy of 12.6.06 on archive.org and it worked a charm!

Let's see how far we can ride this train. Hold on to your butts!

Aww yiss

LET IT RIDE!!!

It is done! I present to you, in sheer defiance of Cupertino, a 12-year-old iMac running the last version of OSX to support 32-bit apps! As much as I'd like to try, I'm going to hold off on upgrading to Catalina--this will serve my needs just fine.

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