Mastodawn

@Slash909uk @phlash Oh! I had forgotten I had these online. These are from when we built Genie Internet for Cellnet - Originally on the Telex floor (where Wireplay was), and then we had to move it up to the 5th or 6th onto my office floor, where the corporate networks hung out. This was the install record, sadly taken on a 1999 digital camera, sorry! I had a skim, there's nothing in there that would be considered classified these days.

https://lorry.org/Genie/

The Celnet Genie service, which we designed as an "ISP in a box", was pretty amazing, really, especially for an essentially free ISP.

Also, it's one of those odd jobs where you end up as both lead applications architect, systems manager, server builder, removal dude, and underfloor cable rat and crimper in the same project. I feel jobs like that in big corporations tend not to exist any more.

#retrocomputing #security #cybersecurity #infosec #bt #london #keybridge #mi6 #security #ISPs #Cellnet #Genie #O2 #bigiron #history #abandoned #photography #Telecoms #Telex #Buildings #Architecture

DStrausss Feb 20

*BRANDNEUER* YouTube Short!!
"Lochkartenmischmaschine IBM 077 von 1934 - zum Anfassen!! "

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintage #bigiron #heavymetal #ibm

https://youtube.com/shorts/NrlsudLkvfI

Lochkartenmischmaschine IBM 077 von 1934 - zum Anfassen!! #vintage #bigiron #heavymetal

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DStrausss Feb 17

*Brand New* YouTube Short!!
"The IBM 077 punched card collator from 1934 - in the flesh!!"

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintage #bigiron #heavymetal #ibm

https://youtube.com/shorts/us3_2aAsfos

The DAWN of mobile computing in 1956 (!!) LGP-30 at Technikum29.de #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

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Justin Stanley Oct 17

This is a hilarious bit of #wh40k art by Sarah (https://mixuen.carrd.co/) that I saw on Bluesky. It was too good not to share here.

Her caption:

*Now the stranger started showing there, to all the folks around; *
*A brooch of foreign metal, Gothic I in silver bound. *
*He came here on bitter business, to leave all the xenos dead; *
*And on the list of purged was the name of Fasta Red, *
*The name of Fasta Red.*

#warhammer #warhammer40k #bigiron

sazengrows Jun 5, 2025

(11697) The medium iron, the smith and Wesson model 10-8! #smithandWesson #bigiron #revolver #guntuber - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sMlWrCDM8BU

The medium iron, the smith and Wesson model 10-8! #smithandWesson #bigiron #revolver #guntuber

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Moshville Times Mar 23, 2025

Gig Review: Cory Marks / Big Iron – The Cathouse, Glasgow (18th March 2025)

Why don't I go to the Cathouse more often for gigs? It's a cracking venue with awesome staff and above-decent sound. Tonight it was playing host to country rocker Cory Marks, with local-ish support supplied by Edinburgh's Big Iron.

A show of han

https://www.moshville.co.uk/reviews/gig-review/2025/03/gig-review-cory-marks-big-iron-the-cathouse-glasgow-18th-march-2025/

#GigReviews #BigIron #CoryMarks

The Longest Johns Nov 20, 2024

No new video today, but GOOD NEWS: every song on Caught in the Net (vol.1) ALREADY HAS a video that you can go and watch right now, from Little Pot Stove, through to Big Iron!
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfxnB1YXnxp7y5s6sdpdQHGDFXgomxfFH

#TheLongestJohns #CaughtInTheNet #FolkMusic #Shanty #NewMusic #NewAlbum #MartyRobbins #BigIron

Before you continue to YouTube

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Nov 16, 2024

Future of #BigIron: #TelumII and #Spyre
#IBM’s big #mainframe props up almost every key industry world-wide due to features such as 9x9 (99.999999%) uptime, security, and hardware focused on database and transaction processing.
#Telum became centerpiece of 4th gen #LinuxOne – a series of #Linux systems purely for z architecture. Another big focus, for #z15 and LinuxOne, was built-in #AI engine with every chip, allowing focused models to run alongside critical workloads.
https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/the-future-of-big-iron-telum-ii-and

The Longest Johns Oct 23, 2024

BIG IRON!
Both one of the standout tracks on our new album Caught in the Net
https://bio.site/Caughtinthenet
BUT ALSO
performed live on last week's stream, and available in a tidy edited bundle for you RIGHT NOW!
https://youtu.be/wkZXmFTEuPI

#TheLongestJohns #LiveStream #Cowboy #BigIron #FolkMusic #CaughtInTheNet #Country