Projects

Power Macintosh 9500/150 - August 8, 2025

This Mac was purchased from Garrett over at BitHistory.org. It is a bit of an odd one, considering that it was downgraded to a 100MHz 601 PowerPC processor at some point in its lifetime. After reseating the processor card, the machine sprung to life and booted an install of MacOS 8 from its IBM 2Gb SCSI hard disk. It appeared to have been used in a realtor's office, with photos of houses, Photoshop and other editing software, and all software was licensed to "Iowa Realty". The disk has since been wiped and moved to my Macintosh Classic II. The PM9500 will receive a BlueSCSI with a fresh install of MacOS 8.5, and will run as a file server for my various vintage Macintosh systems. I plan to recap the logic board and PSU in the near future. Updated 8/14/2025