Circa 2003 I found an old Quadra [forget which model, but with an MMU -- still have it powered off in a closet] on eBay for less than $20, and installed A/UX.
I got some old Mac software (some games, and an old release of Netscape), and some GNU ports (gcc 2.8 ish I believe?). It was interesting what could have been - there is a simplicity in System 7 UI that OS X doesn't have. But after a while it became kind of boring, another dated Unix machine that can't run a lot of recent things.
The most dated thing I remember from the time was it didn't support DHCP.
I got some old Mac software (some games, and an old release of Netscape), and some GNU ports (gcc 2.8 ish I believe?). It was interesting what could have been - there is a simplicity in System 7 UI that OS X doesn't have. But after a while it became kind of boring, another dated Unix machine that can't run a lot of recent things.
The most dated thing I remember from the time was it didn't support DHCP.