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Get Roped Into Magnetic Core Memory with this 512 bit Module https://hackaday.com/2025/07/11/get-roped-into-magnetic-core-memory-with-this-512-bit-module/ #Magnetic-corememory #Retrocomputing #corememory
SDF.ORGThe DECSYSTEM 2020 was the smallest PDP-10 digital made.
It was also their last as the Jupiter KC10 was never realized.
The Foonly, Systems Concepts and later XKL would continue advancing the PDP-10.
@webmacher Those are quite robust. I have a couple of them in use in various devices and just one failed a few months ago after a similar time👌
@forgejo Upgraded my instance from v7 to v11 - it went smoothly as always 👌
Today, my latest purchase, a toshiba t1000xe laptop, arrived. The device is in good shape, but the Conner harddisk drive is not!
Something is leaking from it - and it's not data 🫠I just learned, this is the (now liquified) sealing between the upper and lower part of the disk.. a common problem with those drives.
Those were the days when we put these lamps into our computers. I've had this pair lying around for years and it still works, great!
ps: I bought a Korad bench-powersupply 😎
#retrocomputing #electronics
@fbarbeira It's originally a Supermicro SuperServer 5018A-FTN4 (SYS-5018A-FTN4), but with a changed case (Supermicro CSE-505-203B with connectors on the front) and changed fans.
So it's small (1U), quiet and has a low power consumption: 18 watts idle, 33 on full stress.
This SSD in the front died during resilvering today, as I was upgrading my #proxmox server (zfs-array) with 4 new SSDs.
The old ones are at least 10 years old and maybe from the same batch, so there were chances of duplicate fail. Luckily this didn't happen and there are backups, of course!
I read about failing disks in long used nas-drives during the resilvering process, but it never happened with my equipment.
I'm already starting my New Year's resolutions: just simplify!
This is a reminder to myself.
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