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Living Computers vet rescues 1986 Mac from thrift store and gets it to run ChatGPT and much more

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Hunter Irving was a guide and systems engineer at the Paul Allen-founded Living Computers: Museum + Labs in Seattle .

He found a 1986 Apple Macintosh Plus in a thrift store and got it hooked up to the internet.

Irving 's first computer was a hand-me-down from his dad, a Macintosh SE/30 , similar to the Macintosh Plus.

Hunter Irving's project has allowed him to run OpenAI ’s ChatGPT on the vintage interface, looking as if it were created in the 1980s .

For kicks, I asked if I could run the AI software on a 1986 Macintosh Plus computer.

GPT replied that it was not possible due to limitations including hardware, the operating system and lack of internet access.