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Reclaiming My Creative Life With Vintage Macs: The Home Stretch

Posted on June 2, 2026 by Joe

Over Memorial Day weekend I tried installing Linux Mint XFCE on the 2012 Mac Mini, paired with a new OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual — a dual-bay external enclosure that holds two 3.5″ drives.

Posted in Computers, News, Pixels Versus Pigment | Tagged art repository, cigar box projects, digital archive, diy server, dual drive enclosure, dummy plug, family server, headless mac, mac catalina, mac mini 2012, owc mercury elite, Reclaiming Creative Life, retro computing, screen sharing, smb share, vintage Mac | 2 Comments

Reclaiming My Creative Life With Vintage Macs: The Maltese Mac Mini Stack

Posted on May 20, 2026 by Joe_Williams

My second cigar box mini-stack is now complete. Like the first one, it pairs a vintage Mac with a modern one — a 2010 Mac mini running Snow Leopard and a M1 Mac mini running the latest macOS. They share … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers, Joe's Garage, Stuff Joe Likes | Tagged 2010 Mac mini, Adobe CS4, Cigar Box Mini Stack, KVM switch, M1 Mac mini, Mac Mini Stack, Maltese Mini Stack, Reclaiming Creative Life, retro computing, Snow Leopard, vintage Mac | 2 Comments

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