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onion, to browsers

When were just that and not a damn virtual machine requiring multiple cores and gigabytes of memory.

onion, to Finland

Where have you spotted, printed, in the wild? Here is one of my favourites, bus stop information. They have been using it for years now.
@openstreetmap

onion, to drupal

Now I remember way I blocked out working on a to for a while. The hunt for workarounds for stuff is exhausting.

theLobdegg, to random

@polpo
Out of curiosity, the PicoGUS wouldn't happen to be a good candidate for a half height PCI card, would it? I don't really know too much about the rigors and demands that come with designing a PCI device. I ask because I keep coming across those little low powered micro tower computers that were trendy in the mid 00's and they've always got a standard PCI card slot but only like a 2" clearance or something.

onion,

@root42 @polpo @theLobdegg would a PCI ISA bridge chip work?

SinclairSpeccy, to tech

Source: https://flic.kr/p/9gtfnD https://flic.kr/p/9gwk8U

1978 Univac Mainframe Terminal

onion,

@SinclairSpeccy I think a recycling center here had that terminal (or something very close to it) some years ago, asking price was ridiculous as usual. Cut wires, untested. Sigh.

onion, to mastodon

I wish there was a "Load posts" button for accounts I don't follow

nixCraft, to random
@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar

Your sibling wants to start coding. What programming language would you recommend?
0. C

  1. JavaScript
  2. Java
  3. Python
  4. Something else
onion,

@nixCraft C

foone, to random
@foone@digipres.club avatar

when you're installing a mouse driver into your DOS installation, do you do the lazy thing and stick MOUSE.EXE/CTMOUSE.EXE into C:\DOS? or do you keep things "clean" by putting it in C:\MOUSE and adjusting the PATH?

onion,

@foone I think I used C:\UTILS\ for stuff like that

onion, to random

Started to go through all my old machines, of course the mac Classic had a leaky battery. Not too bad, yet.
But what is now the best way to clean? IPA?

foone, to random
@foone@digipres.club avatar

what kind of a fucking company releases a unix in 1998 that is available only on floppy disks? 22 of them?

onion,

@foone hah, just learned about that OS today. How did I ever miss it, I wonder.

onion, to random

Wouldn't it be fun if someone would remake a or with modern components as people seem to do of just about every toy system these days.
Even the schemas and PAL code is out there, afaik, so should be fairly easy ? Or ?

onion, to random

Sun 2/120 booting SunOS 3.0
This is from 2004 when I got the machine. Cost me 2€, delivered.

onion, to random

This badge on my Sun2/120 is cool, signatures of all the people that assembled, tested and inspected it.
Anyone you might know @aka_pugs ?

onion, to random

you say ? This is gonna be fun. Here are two of my favorites. A Sun2/120 and Sun3/60

Sun 3/60 board
Sun 2 Processor multibus board with a 68010 in the middle.

nixCraft, to linux
@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar

When you thought the server reboot would take 10 minutes and 20 minutes has passed and ping -a server_ip still says "Destination Host Unreachable" 😨 Also see ping command example tutorial https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-ping-command-examples/

video/mp4

onion,

@nixCraft yeah, when a journaling fs was still a dream for and the mail server is fscking for hours. Good times... 👍

SinclairSpeccy, to mastodon

Anyone on or the know of any good space simulation games? I have Universe Sandbox 2 which is pretty neat but I’m looking for other suggestions, as I think it would be helpful for one of my worldbuilding projects.

Although my computer isn’t that powerful, I’m particularly looking for stuff like SpaceEngine (which sadly does not run on my PC)

onion,

@SinclairSpeccy Microsoft Space Simulator

onion, to linuxphones

Loved this thing, it was pretty much perfect.

dec_hl, to retrocomputing
@dec_hl@mastodon.social avatar

Hey bubble, please hit me with links to your favorite tracker files (MOD/S3M/XM/SID).
Preferably download links and/or online players, but YouTube is OK, too.

onion,

@dec_hl an old friends music disk, a bit different. https://youtu.be/4RU6T81d1dU

feoh, to retrocomputing

OK fans:

What's your favorite / most wanted computer you never owned?

Mine would be a tie between an Amiga A3000T and a Commodore 128 :)

onion,

@feoh more Sun2 and Sun3 hardware. And early Sun4. A Sun1 would be the ultimate but afaik there aren't many of those around. And of course any other early systems.

nixCraft, to random
@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar

Tell me you are a Linux desktop user without telling me you're a Linux desktop user.

onion,

@nixCraft everything just works, even printers are just plug and print. Amazing.

onion,

@nixCraft I don't need to reboot to fix random problems

onion, to php

Sometimes I wonder why to even bother with bug reports when you get absolutely no reaction for days, weeks, months, years.

onion,

@stpaultim sure. But is a business, you would think they would care to not ship buggy stuff.

onion,

@stpaultim and of course Qt folks reacted just a couple of hours after my rant 😀.

root42, to random
@root42@chaos.social avatar

This Jazz16 based sound card from 1994 was my first sound card. Back then in a 486SX25. What was your first sound card?
#retrocomputing #retrogaming

onion,

@root42 not for sale 😀

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