Mastodawn

Edit: I believe I have someone interested in the SPARCstation now, but feel free to register an interest if you like, I'll try to keep track. It makes me happy that there's so much interest in this nice old machine :)

Original post below:

Would you, or anyone you know, be interested in a free SPARCstation 20 and be able to collect it from the South of Scotland in early April? Some more details here: https://mackenga.ro/blog/2026/free-sparcstation-and-more/index.html

Boosts appreciated if you think someone downstream of you might want it.

#sparc #retrocomputing

Free SPARCstation and more — mackenga.ro

leosam Mar 2

Davide Bucci Mar 1

Y a-t-il des passionné.e.s d’anciens ordinateurs #Apple sur #Grenoble ? Je donne un #PowerMac G4 400MHz avec son écran cathodique. Il manque le disque dur et l’alimentation originale a été remplacée avec une alimentation de PC. J’avais monté un convertisseur DC/DC pour obtenir les 28V pour l’écran. C’est une très très belle machine, mais je ne l’utilise pas et elle prend trop de place chez moi. #retrocomputing EDIT : merci beaucoup ! L'ordinateur ira dans des excellentes mains !

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leosam Jan 29

(Update)

I have figured out it *might* be slightly dangerous to keep my Sparcstation 5 (which is inside my private home network) open to the internet so I transferred my gopher server to a more secure location: gopher://www.leosam.net

leosam Jan 4

Renaissance Dork Jan 4

It would be great if we could run Venix on an emulated Rainbow. Though MAME doesn’t support booting a Rainbow machine from a hard drive OOtB, there is a workaround. #unix #cpm #dos #venix #digital #dec #digitalequipmentcorporation #rainbow #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #mame https://renaissancedork.com/venix-in-mame/

leosam Oct 26

Ha! Finally managed to install a gopher server on my Solaris2.6 system. now I’m on the gopher space (although 30+ years late)! For anyone curious (and who also has a gopher browser): gopher://leosam.net

leosam Oct 21

PierreNick

💾Oct 21

Some days I want to open an Internet café with Macintosh Performas (because that’s what I remember Internet cafés having).

It uses an Internet Archive/Wayback Machine proxy, and every day is a random day between 1995 and 2000, which is announced on a board (“Today is July 8th, 1997”).

There’s obviously extensive caching on-premise and monthly donations to the IA for their work.

There’s also good specialty coffee, of course, and other fun retro telecommunications and non-Web Internet stuff (BBS, Teletex, IRC, etc.)

Totally not sustainable and I’ve never run such a thing, but fun to think about. Make the internet exciting again. #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

leosam Oct 20

1995: the advantage of internet is that everything is distributed so no system failure can bring it down

2025: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_chaos/

AWS outage exposes Achilles heel: central control plane

Analysis: Too many services depend not just on one cloud provider, but on one location

The Register

leosam Oct 6

Jouni OH3CUF Oct 6

Meshtastic iOS app breaks EU law with sending lots of telemetry (logs, usage) to DataDog in US wthout user consent and without any kind of notification of the app doing so.

I reported this as issue and it got immediately closed without any explanation: https://github.com/meshtastic/Meshtastic-Apple/issues/1449

#meshtastic #gdpr #datadog

🐞 [Bug]: DataDog telemetry collection lacks GDPR-compliant consent mechanism at app startup · Issue #1449 · meshtastic/Meshtastic-Apple

Before submitting I have searched existing issues to make sure this bug hasn't already been reported I have updated to the latest version of the software to verify the issue still exists Firmware V...

GitHub

leosam Oct 5