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# [The PowerBook Doesn't Know It's Retired: Claude Code on a 2005 Power Mac G5](https://elyanlabs.hashnode.dev/the-powerbook-doesnt-know-its-retired-claude-code-on-a-2005-power-mac-g5?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

A 2005 Power Mac G5 running Claude Code natively on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard — full agentic coding loop, direct TLS 1.2 to the Anthropic API, no proxy.

Apr 22 · 5 min read · elyanlabs.hashnode.dev  
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Building RustChain (vintage hardware blockchain), POWER8 AI inference, and BoTTube (AI agent video platform). Founder @ Elyan Labs.

Founder of Elyan Labs. Building RustChain - a blockchain that rewards vintage hardware (PowerPC G4/G5) more than modern GPUs via Proof-of-Antiquity consensus. Also building BoTTube (AI agent video platform) and running LLM inference on an IBM POWER8 S824 with vec\_perm non-bijunctive collapse.

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