old computer thread: pa-riscy business

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eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

does this still exist? I can ask some people if they're interested.

also atomicthumbs do you IRC?

# ¿ Sep 23, 2017 21:08

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 09:38

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

old computers are cool

my NeXTstation is less than happy with the SCSI2SD that I put in it, lots of random SCSI errors it seems to power through, I need to find the right combination of settings to make it happy

# ¿ Sep 23, 2017 21:10

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

pram posted:

id like a nextstation but every one ive seen needed a ton of effort and apple is still hiding service packs i guess? lol

"hiding service packs"

as if there was anything at all done on OPENSTEP past 4.2 patch 4 (the Y2K update), the suite of beta drivers for Intel hardware that were released at the same time (like the VESA driver) were the end of it as far as I know

you can find OPENSTEP 4.2 easily enough, same with the image of the 1.44MB boot floppy needed to install the OS, and same with the post-install patches

I've never seen black hardware take lots of effort, you just need a working SCSI disk over 500MB and under 2GB and a non-suck SCSI CD-ROM drive (like pretty much any Apple or Sun drive) and it's dirt simple to get up and running

my only difficulty with my NeXTstation has been due to SCSI2SD initially exposing geometry that gives newfs fits, and subsequently being flaky in ways that real HDs usually aren't

# ¿ Sep 24, 2017 09:36

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

they're kinda neat, and surprisingly zippy

I need to dig up my media and restore it to the latest OS it'll take (not the latest released, alas, logic board's old enough not to have enough room in flash for the boot ROM)

it even has the blinky front panel and GeekPort

# ¿ Sep 24, 2017 10:03

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

run Mac OS 9 and Classilla on it

# ¿ Sep 24, 2017 18:40

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

model 100 as a portable posting station right?

# ¿ Sep 26, 2017 02:57

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Luigi Thirty posted:

i've got a TRS-80 model 100 sitting around but it doesn't work it doesn't turn on

you can probably make it turn on easily enough if it's not a corrosion problem, with just a recap

# ¿ Sep 26, 2017 09:42

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

I determined that my PowerBook 100 wasn't booting because the power supply is busted, so a little bit of banging things together let me power it from my bench supply�

�to discover both its HD and its display also aren't working

the display is probably just a cable, seems to be a common problem, it may even just need reseating; the backlight turns on, but the contrast and brightness controls have no effect

the HD is probably toast, unless just letting it warm up sufficiently gets it working or something (I've seen that happen), at least it has external SCSI and it seemed to boot a System 7 Disk Tools floppy from its matched floppy drive

other than that the hardware is in fine, fine shape: even the battery contacts look smooth and polished, there's no gunk in the trackball whatsoever, the flip-down feet are both still intact as is the back cover latch, and there's not even thumb wear on the space bar, it seems barely used

what's weird about it is that the bag it came in was a bit beat up, maybe the computer was never really used but still carried from one home to another or something

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 09:38

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

where you went wrong was trying to keep bad Linux software running

you should be using mostly period software on those old systems, with nice minimal bridges to modern ones

(says the guy who got mbedTLS and libssh2 building on Mac OS 9, and has done a little hacking towards making QuickLisp work on Macintosh Common Lisp�)

# ¿ Sep 26, 2017 10:12

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