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