Forty Years Later, Over a Single Wire: How an AI Agent Came to Drive a 1989 Macintosh

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:47:06 +0200

In April 2026 a Macintosh emulator running System 7.5 answered an HTTP request. In July 2026 a physical Macintosh SE/30 from 1989 — no network card, one serial cable — showed an AI agent its own screen, its own disk, and let itself be driven by the mouse. Between those two points lie six months, sixty-one documented sessions, four freezes that locked an entire operating system, and one bug that only real silicon could reveal. This is that story, assembled from the project’s own record.

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Forty Years Later, Over a Single Wire: How an AI Agent Came to Drive a 1989 Macintosh