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I technically got an LLM running locally on a 1998 iMac G3 with 32 MB of RAM

Via r/LocalLlama
Monday, Apr 6, 2026 · 3:36AM
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Hardware: • Stock iMac G3 Rev B (October 1998). 233 MHz PowerPC 750, 32 MB RAM, Mac OS 8.5. No upgrades. • Model: Andrej Karpathy’s 260K TinyStories (Llama 2 architecture). ~1 MB checkpoint. Toolchain: • Cross-compiled from a Mac mini using Retro68 (GCC for classic Mac OS → PEF binaries) • Endian-sw

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