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Full System Preservation of iMac

Created by Dirk von Suchodoletz on Nov 15, 2012 · last edited by Dirk von Suchodoletz · on Nov 15, 2012 (view history)

Famous fully integrated Apple iMac which was popular by the end of 1990ies and one of the first computers offering USB connection.

The iMac originally got shipped with a Mac OS 8.5.

Booting the machine with a small Linux system from CD (USB booting is not possible with that machine) and dump the main partition to a plugged in USB stick or over the network.

The resulting file then could be directly loaded into the SheepShaver Mac PowerPC emulator.