Mastodawn

🎉 Wow, breaking news: ancient software relics from the Jurassic era of computing have emerged from their dusty crypt! 🦖🍏 Apparently, some folks still care about Apple's 1996 attempt to play #Unix dress-up. Spoiler alert: it didn't end well, much like your first email address. 📬🔍
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-apple-network-server-macos-roms.html #ancientsoftware #nostalgia #apple1996 #techhistory #HackerNews #ngated

The 1996 Apple Network Server was Apple's first true Unix-through-and-through server (the Apple Workgroup Server 95, actually a Quadra 950...

🚀 Ah, the riveting saga of installing ancient software on a museum-grade PC. What’s next, a tutorial on starting fires with flint and steel? 💾 Call us when you manage to load Windows 95 on your abacus. 😂
https://hardwarehacks.org/blog/installing_aix_ps2_13_on_a_486/ #ancientsoftware #retrocomputing #techhumor #museumgradePC #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated

🚀 The article reads like an ancient scroll of forgotten software relics nobody asked for. X11 tools? More like X-Why-Bother tools. 😴 Go ahead, impress your friends with your knowledge of XEarth and XMascot at the next party—oh wait, it'll still be empty. 🍂
https://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/ #ancientsoftware #forgottenrelics #X11tools #techhumor #softwarehistory #HackerNews #ngated

Cool, but obscure X11 tools.