amilatledFeb 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
Matteo Bilotta Feb 16

Due settimane fa, vi chiesi come mai - secondo voi - non vengono più scritti #RetroServer per i #Videogames #LiveService...
Gratuiti o a pagamento, che siano.

Le risposte - prese dai diversi social in cui ho postato - possono essere riassunte e semplificate in un'unica frase:

«Son cambiati i tempi e - con essi - le persone!»

• «Prima si programmava per passione. Ora è solo lavoro.»
• «Non esistono più community così unite.»
• «Quando tutto è gratis, nulla ha più davvero valore.»
• ecc...

DeltaLima 🐧Feb 16

Mhhh.. #snac crashes when it start's in my Dual Pentium II system. It's performing at start a heavy job "started deferred data integrity check", which does lot IO.
When I turn off the traffic from outside, it seems to run (takes ages). But when I turn on the traffic to it, it crashes with
`Illegal instruction (core dumped)`

I took the installation over from the PIII system and activated the MP #OpenBSD kernel. (Do you really have to cp it from the CD by yourself??)

#retrocomputing #retroserver

Show threadamilatledFeb 14
Is it a sin to break this seal, or is it a liberation of the machine?

CC: @[email protected]

#retrocomputing #retrocomputer #retroserver #oldcomputer #pentium2
Show threadamilatledFeb 14
It's the original Box of the mainboard, but a bit in a bad shape. looks like it was not always in a dry environment.
But beside that, everything inside looks fantastic. Every single piece is originally sealed. :-O This was a real steal for just 32€

It's a Micronics Spitfire EX (09-00302-XX) Dual SLOT 1 Mainboard from 1997.

#retrocomputing #retrocomputer #retroserver #oldcomputer #pentium2
DeltaLima 🐧Feb 13

Look at This beauties! I fckn love those 90s 19“ rack cases 😍
Tomorrow the dual Slot 1 mainboard will arrive, 2x P II 350MHz did today.

#retrocomputer #retrocomputing #retroserver #oldtech

Show threadamilatledFeb 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
Show threadamilatledFeb 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
Show threadMatteo Bilotta Feb 3

Vi lascio - per ora - con questa domanda...
Son genuinamente curioso di sapere cosa ne pensate o di conoscere il vostro punto di vista...

Avete mai avuto esperienze con questi server privati o - come li chiamano ora - #RetroServer? 🙃

ClaudioMFeb 6, 2019
Still have this bad boy at one of my sites. Decommissioned it a while ago for obvious reasons, but I may have it rise from the grave with a new soul. #bsd #netbsd #openbsd #freebsd #compaq #retroserver