Category: Retro Computing
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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…
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The Elder Nerd
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I’ve been doing this computer thing for a while now, so I get the privilege of being able to pipe up on various forums and social media posts when someone…
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8100, part 4
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The rest of the parts I ordered / had made for the 8100 came in this afternoon – save for the BlueSCSI boxes which haven’t shipped yet – so the…
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8100, part three
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Some of the parts I ordered for the 8100 came in today, so it was time to take the machine apart… To get to this part requires some careful fiddling…
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8100, part two
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Signs you may be taking this whole retro computer thing too seriously: you have a guy in Ohio hand-making custom high-speed VRAM for a very unique PDS video card that…
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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…