Meandering Thoughts and Random Observations
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 evening was spent creating the most upgraded 8100/80 in human history… At least as far as I know. The first…
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 as there are a lot of plastic tabs you need to carefully bend to remove board retainers and brackets. And…
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 only works in one model of computer from thirty years ago… Yep. That’s me… The PDS-based HPV (High Performance Video)…
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 had a Pentium 75 in it. It was my BBS / MUCK dialup box… That’s probably FurryMUCK on the screen.…
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 it seems like just a few weeks ago I was testing 2012 to replace my 2008 r2 systems – and…
Like the t-shirt says: “That’s what I do: I fix stuff and I know things”… My time in the USN was on a submarine, and on a submarine you’re expected to be able to do everything and fix anything – so while I was a Radioman managing top secret comms,…