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The PowerBook Doesn't Know It's Retired: Claude Code on a 2005 Power Mac G5
DEV.to AIΒ·April 22, 2026
The article details how a developer successfully ran Claude Code natively on a 2005 Power Mac G5, despite the hardware being long considered obsolete. This project demonstrates agentic AI loops on vintage PowerPC architecture, communicating directly with Anthropic's API.
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