Category: Retro Computing
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1995
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Back in early 1995 my living room / computer lab looked a bit like this: In the above photo you can see my IBM Model 330-P75 on the left, which…
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OS v.old
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Welp, today Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2012 and 2012 r2 will be EoS (End of Support) on October 10th. These EoS announcements always make me feel my age, because…
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History in computers
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My company has been in business since 1999, and one of the services we used to provide was hardware compatibility testing. What hardware compatibility testing is, is seeing how a…
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Exhibit A
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Right after the last post, I had to break out the old Dell laptop again – so I figured I’d do a quick post that kind of illustrates a typical…
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Let’s Get Dangerous
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I do complicated computer wizardry as part of my day-to-day life so I’m always elbow deep in some bit of hardware, reverse engineering the new hotness, or hacking functionality into…
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iPod
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Today’s old hardware is a 4th generation iPod Touch… While I don’t have my original ‘click wheel’ iPod anymore, I do still have my original 2005 iPod Shuffle and this…
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WWDC 23
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Yesterday was the annual Apple “World Wide Developer Conference” – which is where Apple shows off all of their new and updated stuff. There was all of the usual stuff;…
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SGI
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Ever wondered what a $30,000 computer looked like in the mid 90’s? Well, let me show you… The above, in 1994, came with a 150Mhz R4400SC cpu, 24-bit XL graphics…
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LAN Party
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Back in the before times of the 90’s we used to drag our gaming rigs over to friends houses to play multiplayer games… And being as I was a network…
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DARWARS
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I was digging around in an old box of stuff here at work and came across a DVD for one of the first things I worked on when I started…
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The Golden Age of Wireless
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A package arrived today… I’ve been searching for the Apple branded wifi card for my circa 2000 PowerBook G3 “Pismo” on and off for quite some time, and while they…
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Sun-Shine
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I rarely talk about work because almost everything I do is NDA, trade secret, classified, or otherwise controlled information – so it’s easier to just avoid the topic entirely. But,…
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High-end server
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Back in 1999, when we started the company, we bought some really high-end servers for performance testing – and I still have a few for ‘old times sake’. Here, for…
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Livin’ in the future
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The floppy emulator I ordered a few days ago arrived yesterday afternoon, so I spent the latter half of the day puttering about with antique computers… The emulator came as…
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Modulate Demodulate
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The first thing one should do with any old computer hardware is work out how to get it to connect to the local BBS. The Mac Plus needed some OS…
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Mac+
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Today we set the wayback machine to 1987… In early 1987 my duty station had changed from a TDU at the Groton Subbase to the USS Pennsylvania (SSBN 735), which…
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And a few years later…
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I don’t normally keep my old Windows machines because, well, they’re just old Windows machines. There’s nothing really special about most old Windows machines as they tend to be either…
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Y2K Laptops
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Not all of my interesting antique computers are Apples; I have a few other things that I used back in the day, usually for work, that are pretty interesting… For…
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Work
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It’s a cold, grey, and somewhat snowy day outside and things are a bit slow here at the office, so I figured I’d show off my work setup while waiting…
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Old Code
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I was rummaging around in a box of old stuff, and came across a typed-out bit of BASIC I wrote for my ZX-81. I know it was the ZX-81 because…