Mastodawn

Happend couple a days ago, debian Trixie and gnome on a pre microslop surface 3, use it in my kitchen for music and food recipe.

#2026yearoflinux
#surface3
#oldhardware

Blake Patterson Mar 3

Southern California Research Group's (SCRG) Switch-A-Slot attached to a 128K enhanced Apple IIe computer.

The more slots, the better.

#AppleII #Apple2forever #vintageApple #Apple #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #retrocomputers #retrogaming #vintagetech #tech #oldhardware #rainbowapple #photo #CRT #floppydrive #hardware #photograph #ByteCellar

Silicium Feb 21

J’adore ces machines où l’UX est… mécanique.
La HP-46 (1973) combine calcul scientifique, RPN et imprimante intégrée : tu obtiens une trace papier immédiate et le clac-clac vaut un ASMR vintage. 😄

A lire : https://www.silicium.org/index.php/blog-catalogue/ordis/hewlett-packard/hp46

#HP-46 #HewlettPackard #RetroComputing #VintageTech #RPN #OldHardware #GeekHistory

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amilatled Feb 21

Funfact: you can use exactly the same hardware in 86Box, as I have here in real 🤯

Mainboard: Micronics Spitfire
CPU: Pentium II 233 MHz
Graphics card: S3 Trio64
Network card: RTL8139

#86box #retrohardware #retrocomputing #oldhardware #emulation #snac #snac2 #netbsd #openbsd

amilatled Feb 20

Hello from an old year 1997 Machine!
This snac server is now running on a Micronics Spitfire with 2x Pentium II @ 233MHz and 512MB SD-RAM. Operating System is NetBSD 10.1, installed on a 120GB SSD (SATA->IDE converter)

OpenBSD wasn't able to run snac stable on this machine, it crashed after a few requests with "illegal instruction".

#snac #snac2 #fediverse #activitypub #NetBSD #OpenBSD #retrocomputing #retroserver #retrohardware #pentiumii #pentium2 #oldhardware

Thrash Cardiom Feb 16

Found my old Sony PRS-650 e-reader a few days ago. The last few times I tried to make it work, it simply wouldn't complete charging and wouldn't boot.

I charged it and it's now starting absolutely fine and seems to be holding the charge as well. Not too bad for something that I think I bought in 2012.

I can't use it though. It's display is too dim for my eyes now and you can't raise its brightness.

Fortunately I now have a Kobo which does allow this.

Can you do anything interesting with old e-readers?

#Ereader #Ebook #OldHardware

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amilatled Feb 8

Hello from #snac , running on an old Pentium 3 900 MHz system with 512MB of RAM and 40GB 5400RPM HDD with #OpenBSD as operating system

This is very slow. And that's not caused by the old CPU. Hopefully a new ssd + ide>sata adapter will arrive soon.

#retro #retrocomputing #retroserver #oldhardware #pentium3

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amilatled Feb 6

Alright, I am now owning (when received) a brand new and sealed Micronics Spitfire EX (09-00302-XX) Dual Slot 1 Mainboard and two Pentium II 350MHz. Unfortunately the 440LX chipset only support 66MHz FSB CPU's, so my ordered CPUs will only run at ~233MHz, which will be fine for me in the first place. Maybe I can do some overclock or so.
I really hope I have enough large SD Ram lying around to pack it up with the maximum of 1GB.
Pentium II is new enough to run a modern Linux Kernel on it, but I feel like I am more interested in throwing #OpenBSD on it, because I never really hacked around with it yet and it would fit IMHO better to this hardware.
Running a #snac instance on it, would be an idea. I really wonder, how that will perform.
Stay tuned.

#retrocomputing #retroserver #retro #oldhardware #440lx #pentiumii #pentium2