Category: Retro Computing
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Been a while
With everything going on – and none of it really noteworthy – I’ve not posted anything here in a while. Let me remedy that. First up is another of the…
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Relics of a bygone age
I was digging around in storage and came upon an old box of ‘gaming stuff’… Pictured are my old Logitech “Wingman Extreme” joystick I used to play Descent II in…
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Update…
Still head-down and plodding… At work I’m still cleaning out the office / store room where I stashed all of the crap our spinoff abandoned in place when the plandemic…
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Old Odd Storage
There was a brief period in time where portable electronics had gotten small enough that the HD was the limiting factor – but SSDs hadn’t caught up yet… So you…
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Good old days…
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…