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3D Megadoodoo posted:His mom is hot. Microwave is older than I imagined
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Same. I ain’t paying Elon ad dollars
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My friends uncle at Nokia
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Mar 28, 2024 15:09
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Oh my god that screenshot. I spent so much time in audiograbber and completely forgot it existed until I saw your post
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Mar 28, 2024 23:12
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The last paragraph is the true tech relic 
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Code Jockey posted:oooooh Netstumbling still works these days! You can also Bluetooth stumble. Whilst unemployed some years back, I built a gnarly netstumbling rig out of boredom. The only difference today is you want to turn the ping off because it pings nonstop everywhere
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I love that video phone calls were second only to flying cars in the “coming any day now” and “wildly futuristic” categories, we got that technology delivered to us, it’s easy, quick, and works great, and everyone is like “ew, don’t FaceTime me, call me if you must, but I’d really rather you text me” They delivered us the future and we hate it lol
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Mar 31, 2024 23:41
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Lol holy poo poo that remote
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Lmao
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Apr 13, 2024 14:37
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lol it took me way too long to figure out what was going on with this picture
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Apr 14, 2024 00:38
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:I'm trying to do my household budget. How much do you guys spend a week on blank minidiscs? I try to limit it to $500 a week For real though film photography is the new tech relic analog storage moneyhole for me. A roll of Kodak portra 800 is $20! 
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Letmebefrank posted:
At least IBM is insinuating that your engineers can be freed up to do more useful tasks than basic calculation. that same ad today would talk up how you can just shitcan everyone and let IBM’s WatsonGPT be the head of every department at your company.
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Janus cycle is very underrated, I like pretty much all their videos.
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MSDOS 4.0 just went open source. https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2024/04/25/open-sourcing-ms-dos-4-0/ They also released a beta version of dos 4 that was designed to multitask 
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Apr 28, 2024 01:43
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The beosystem is sustained by the smoke of marlboro reds
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That is a thing of beauty
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Speaking of things of beauty, I recently picked up a Sun Microsystems Sparcstation 5 in desperate need of some TLC. These are very important computers to me, as during my formative years of becoming a computer toucher, I had a high school job at a local business where all of the engineers and some of the IT staff used these Sun SS5 boxes. These were amazing computers to me. While the rest of us plodded away on Pentium 75's with Windows 95 and ball mice, the Sun-havers were living in the future with Solaris and these brand new optical mice that seemed straight out of science fiction. I really was enthralled by the Sun machines, they were extremely untouchable for me as a broke high school kid (and lets be honest, no one outside of the enterprise and education world actually purchased these). So now I have one, my second one, actually. That company eventually gave me a broken one after seeing how smitten I was with them, but I never got it working, and in a fit of being broke in college, I sold it, much to my regret. I am positive that 2024 me could get it running again. Anyway, I have another one, and its very dirty. It came from an auto shop, so it has basically spent its entire life inhaling shop dust. Its got some issues, its missing its left front panel piece, the model placard is pretty crusty, and in general the plastic is brittle as hell     So I'm embarking on the journey to restoring this thing. First things first, cleaning it up. I've fully disassembled it and bathed some parts in 99% ipa to get the crud off. The rest is getting hit with a wire wheel for rust and 120psi of air for the dust.
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May 16, 2024 19:09
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namlosh posted:I’m curious… What kind of shop needs a Sparcstation? Given the other equipment that came out of there it was some extremely ancient inventory system that ran on green screen terminals. If the hard drive in the SS5 is still good (and if I can get the system powered on), maybe I can find out.
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May 17, 2024 03:21
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Well, it’s massively more clean now, and it powers on! I don’t have a 13w3 to vga adapter yet though, so I can’t tell if it’s booting yet  Unfortunately more brittle 90’s plastic succumbed to simply being disassembled, so I guess I have to make an eBay search for these front plates  
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May 17, 2024 05:10
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Oooh, nice! I'll hook mine up to serial tonight and see what it says. What are you doing for an NVRAM replacement? Hacking the existing one apart, or getting a new one? I think mine has just 32MB of RAM, which is still fine for the time it was made, but I believe it has the 170mhz processor in it. Are you going to run solaris on it, or some form of *nix?
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May 17, 2024 20:02
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I bought this one, which people in the reviews are talking about working with Sun machines https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007TZG526
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May 17, 2024 22:15
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I got nothing on the serial output from the Sun, but apparently I need a null modem cable? I think I’m using just a straight through serial cable. I guess we’ll find out when the adapter arrives tomorrow
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May 18, 2024 00:27
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Whoa, it’s an official port too quote:It was programmed along with other Unix-like ports of Doom by id Software programmer Dave Taylor, with support from Richard Goldstein, Bart Smaalders, and Ken Leigh.
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May 18, 2024 18:00
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It lives! But now I have to figure this out 
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May 18, 2024 22:51
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I think the NOK prompt means NOT OK, so the 2 being there sort of makes sense
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I feel like sgi really cornered the graphics market and sun went after the server market. Although suns were big in the CAD world for a while. That was their primary use at my old job
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May 19, 2024 01:36
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Well, I'm really not sure whats going on with the Sun right now. At first it was throwing that memory error, which I fixed by reseating the RAM. Then it started throwing ecache errors, which came up pretty late in the POST process, and now its throwing a ROM mapping error pretty early in the process.code:
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May 19, 2024 06:07
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It is from serial but I also have video hooked up and I’m not getting anything. I don’t think it kicks over to the display until the post process has completed
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May 19, 2024 15:53
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Also shout out to google groups for archiving Usenet posts, as that is where most of the good troubleshooting info on these machines is. The downside is all of the posts are from the late 90’s and early 00’s when these machines were coming out of corporate use and headed for the landfill, so most of the replies are “don’t bother fixing it, just buy a <next model in the lineup>”
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May 19, 2024 15:57
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I have been doing it just over serial so far, but I can try a keyboard, I have a sun keyboard kicking around somewhere. Doesn’t it disable serial when the KB is connected though?
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Which I can’t get to because it won’t get through post. Dammit, sun, put that poo poo on a jumper
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I believe those just switch it from RS232 to RS485 or some similar serial standard.
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