Hi guys, I was gifted a free iMac (Intel core 2 duo) from a retired nasa engineer in his 90s (he even worked on the atom bomb!) and I was wondering if it is worth anything or if I should keep it and try to put Linux on it.
He forgot the password and I had to do some things in the terminal to get around it. So far, everything looks to be in working order. I have never owned a Mac or Apple products in general so I am kinda out of my element here lol
Oh wow nice, I was just about to ask if it could run any games! Thank you so much. I am loving exploring old OS’s. I think I’m going to keep it on MacOS. I was messing around with GarageBand and that was pretty fun.
The only issue is I think my “password workaround” may have messed up some things. Notice how in my screenshot that some of my icons like Safari are missing? They don’t launch either. I should probably add what I actually did to get around the password from a YT guide:
The old owners files are all still there despite me making a new account. I don’t think my workaround method did an actual factory reset, rather it just deleted the apple setup file and tricks it into thinking it’s a new install. I’m planning on copying all the old owners personal files to a flash drive and returning it to him before I try to install anything.
I don’t see why that would have broken anything. I’ve never done that before. I’m pretty sure on that old version of Mac OS you could’ve just run resetpassword in terminal to have reset it. But maybe that’s only on the dvd.
Well as long as disk utility works find an iso of whatever Mac OS you want to run and burn that to a USB drive. 10.6 is my favorite since it still has Rosetta to run old PPC OSX software, has the old look, but has the best software support.