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 I'm late but w/e come join me at this cool, relic of internet history http://www.sdf.org
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Jun 24, 2017 07:25
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are those like, little apples
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Jun 24, 2017 07:25
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hey wait a minute is that a public PDP-10 with a bunch of compilers from the 70s
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Jun 24, 2017 08:26
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mission complete
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Jun 24, 2017 21:06
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actually the sdf-1 landed on macross island in 1999 so it would only be 18 years old (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jun 24, 2017 21:11
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Luigi Thirty posted:hey wait a minute is that a public PDP-10 with a bunch of compilers from the 70s they ported all their custom scripts to netbsd so they could upgrade to more modern hardware
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Jun 25, 2017 02:35
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Gazpacho posted:are those like, little apples I hope so
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Jun 25, 2017 02:35
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Silver Alicorn posted:they ported all their custom scripts to netbsd so they could upgrade to more modern hardware i meant the old one they also run http://www.twenex.org/ it's a PDP-10 running TOPS-20 with a bunch of compilers and editors plus an HTTP server that doesn't seem to work
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Jun 25, 2017 07:13
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o drat
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Jun 25, 2017 15:49
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SDF is great, everyone should sign up as MetaARPA members.
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Jun 25, 2017 15:52
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Luigi Thirty posted:i meant the old one they also run Living Computer Museum in Seattle has a bunch of old systems you can request access to. Their PDP-11/70 is named Miss Piggy 
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Jun 25, 2017 20:05
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louisville kentuckys airport is actually 76 years old
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Jun 26, 2017 01:04
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Achmed Jones posted:SDF is great, everyone should sign up as MetaARPA members. I'm already an arpa member but I think I'm gonna up to meta w/ my next paycheck so I can get email directly thru mail.app
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Jun 26, 2017 05:05
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Mike-o posted:Living Computer Museum in Seattle has a bunch of old systems you can request access to. Their PDP-11/70 is named Miss Piggy what about their XKL TOAD-1 who the gently caress decided that was something reasonable to base a router on
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Jun 26, 2017 05:26
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if you wanna have fun, register a girls name on SDF and hop on commode to chat with a bunch of thirsty unix beards my friend ended up asking an admin to change her username to something gender-neutral because these guys were so creepy lmao
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Jun 26, 2017 19:32
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yeah I'm not really on SDF for the community haha
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Jun 26, 2017 19:43
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I like to check the process list on there from time to time. Its mostly commode and IRC stuff, sometimes you see guys telnet'ing to MUD servers. but occasionally you'll see someone batch-downloading porn with lynx Helianthus Annuus fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Jun 26, 2017 |
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Jun 26, 2017 20:00
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Silver Alicorn posted:they ported all their custom scripts to netbsd so they could upgrade to more modern hardware their custom scripts were all written on att system V anyway a shell script from that era would probably work fine on bash even
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Jun 27, 2017 02:33
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eschaton posted:what about their XKL TOAD-1 Probably an ideas guy.
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Jun 27, 2017 18:32
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eschaton posted:what about their XKL TOAD-1 do modern xkl boxes still have tops-20 or whatever running inside?
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Jul 2, 2017 19:39
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that's what I hear
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Jul 2, 2017 19:43
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i had a donators account? or whatever higher ups can give yo that's better than the free one, and i used it once and then it lapsed a year later
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Jul 2, 2017 19:57
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eschaton posted:that's what I hear http://rbnsn.com/pipermail/info-vax_rbnsn.com/2016-December/092947.html it appears the software is different but the underlying hardware is still dec-compatible 36 bit stuff
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Jul 2, 2017 20:30
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because of course when they decided to write a new OS, they decided to keep targeting their clone of an also-ran 1970s extension of a 1960s minicomputer architecture instead of, say, ARM, AARCH64, or x86-64
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Jul 3, 2017 09:34
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bring it in guys! suddenly sh and bash and ksh and every known terminal emulator comes in for a cake, snackage, drinks, and meal items
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Jul 3, 2017 12:38
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power botton posted:bring it in guys! those are shells, not terminal emulators 
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Jul 3, 2017 13:05
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I haven't understood a single thing in this thread but that wasn't gonna stop me from posting
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Jul 3, 2017 13:13
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I just use it for web hosting
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Jul 3, 2017 18:38
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power botton posted:bring it in guys!
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power botton posted:I haven't understood a single thing in this thread but that wasn't gonna stop me from posting same
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Jul 3, 2017 21:58
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im bad at normal computers already why would i want to be bad at old computer too
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Jul 3, 2017 21:58
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boy howdy if you hit a copy of vim that has keybindings for vi you're gonna be in for a goddamned ride.
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Jul 4, 2017 00:25
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i had an account on sdf fifteen years ago and the registration process involved mailing $1 to seattle
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awyeahz posted:i had an account on sdf fifteen years ago and the registration process involved mailing $1 to seattle now you can just paypal it
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Jul 4, 2017 01:07
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or bitcoins if your brain is broken beyond repair
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RISCy Business posted:or bitcoins if your brain is broken beyond repair nice username + thread topic combination here
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Jul 4, 2017 19:19
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reading ksh93 reminds me of old school rave tunesenotnert posted:boy howdy if you hit a copy of vim that has keybindings for vi you're gonna be in for a goddamned ride. what is the difference
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hifi posted:reading ksh93 reminds me of old school rave tunes one's hopelessly outdated and unsuitable for use in 2017 and the other is worse
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vi was a visual mode hastily grafted to a text editor meant for teletypes vim was an attempt to re-write vi for amiga computers. this was arguably not a very good idea. i don't know how either one remains relevant today in the year two thousand and seventeen
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