Category: Retro Computing
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Good old days…
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Here at the office I’m still cleaning out parts of the building that haven’t seen human habitation since 2020… And today’s bit of entertainment is powering up a few antiques…
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World Wide Weird
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I was arguing with a plugin on the company website right before lunch, and then while munching on my PB&J came to the conclusion that I’ve been doing this entirely…
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Xserve
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Today’s side project is shoehorning a more modern video card into my 2008 Xserve 2,1. For about ten years Apple also made servers… The first Xserve models back in 2002…
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Laptop
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Every couple of months I drag out my old Mac laptops and run some juice through them to keep the capacitors as fresh as possible. This is a fairly involved…
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The Wizard is IN
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Not only do I work with ancient computing history at home, but I’m also called upon on occasion to work the deep magic on artifacts floating around the office. See,…
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PowerMac 8100
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One of the complications with keeping a stable of old computers is maintaining the peripherals it takes to do anything with them – which is why most of my collection…
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Despite the horrors, I persist
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With being down to just me at work I’ve been ridiculously busy the last couple of weeks… And I don’t mean just me in the IT personnel sense, but more…
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In Living Color
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I was discussing various old computers with some folks online, and the topic turned to ‘what did screens look like in the 80’s?’ I dug around online for some examples…
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Change of plan
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A couple of years ago I early-adopted a cloud-based computing platform called “Shadow“. Shadow is interesting because it’s not really a cloud-based gaming platform, it just pretends to be one…
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Update
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It’s been about a week now of using a 2011 computer in 2023, and things are still going well. The only real noticeable difference between decades is that the Mac…
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And scene…
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It’s been quite the journey to get to this point; sketchy mining cards, shipping complications, undocumented third-party utilities, and a distinct lack of modern-ish Windows hardware at my disposal. That…
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Life in the crypto-mines
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The RX 6600 XT I ordered off of Amazon for the 2012 Mac Pro arrived last night, and a few minutes later I had it installed in the PC I…
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20 years…
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Back on the 5th I quietly celebrated twenty years of this journal. I started this ongoing chronicle of my so called life on August 5th 2003 over on LiveJournal, and…
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MacPro 5,1 – round two
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I got a chance to mess with the cheese grater a bit last night in my ongoing attempts to make it a daily driver. See, here at work I have…
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Cheese Grater…
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You know how I mentioned that I was pondering picking up a 2012 Mac Pro when I tripped over the 2013 Trashcan Mac Pro – but for various reasons decided…
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Vidya Games
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I’ve kinda orbited around the video games industry since video games were a thing, and accordingly I have quite a few interesting tidbits of hardware laying around – and stories…
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Adobe
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I finally got my copy of CS6 Master Collection to run on something – and have just cancelled my Creative Cloud subscription – saving me $600! Which I’ve already spent…
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And done
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The parts I ordered for the trashcan arrived right after I got home from work, so instead of eating dinner like a sane person – I tore down a 2013…
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Progress Report
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The BlueSCSI hardware I ordered back on the 17th arrived last night, so the evening was spent futzing with the 8100… The BlueSCSI device itself is pretty interesting. It’s entirely…
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MacPro6,1
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Being an ‘old fart’ I’m not super enthusiastic about SaaS models. I mean, I’ve done things like buy a magazine to get a game I had to type into the…