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i didn't see a topic so you can post about old computers in here, i think that might be fun pics, videos, marketing, personal projects, anything goes as long as it's not too modern (90s is pushing it unless it's a sparc/alpha/etc box) kicking it off with the most beautiful homebrew build i've ever seen, one of three this guy owns pictured is a completely homemade wire-wrapped pdp11/05:   he also has a homebrew lsi11 and pdp8, both also wire-wrapped, and the pdp8 is used to build microcode for the 11/05
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Captain Foo posted:holy poo poo that owns seriously can't imagine how many hours of work went into any one of those, it's incredible
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Dijkstracula posted:on mastodon rn a bunch of gentle nerds with old Macs, featuring former forums poster Kaleboo, are setting up an AppleTalk network over a WAN and they're having a nice time sending each other StuffIt files and printing MacPaint drawings that's so cute i love it
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dunno how many people are familiar with the pidp11/70 (scale reproduction of a pdp11/70 with a pi or fpga inside) but the maker is wrapping up his pdp10 recreation project and just launched a new site to go with https://obsolescence.dev/pidp10.html looks   
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quadpus posted:I have a Quadra 700 and an old SE, I should really try to get a node of this working to have up at the fest in Seattle in a couple weeks (https://sdf.org/icf/) that would be so killer, i think people would love it! i really need to get a nice color mac, i only have my SE FDHD right now i've been trying to remember which macs we had in my elementary school library/computer lab but i can't remember much about them anymore 
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ADINSX posted:God that color palette, I should get a keyboard with those colors DEC were really, really good at colors and design in general imo, i love the colors of the PDP12 and various PDP8 models, there are so many good examples in their history  VAXen are really cool machines! i have a handful atm, a 3100/40 like yourself (actually my first vintage machine), a vaxstation 3100/76 that needs repair, and a microVAX II boardset (KA630 CPU + 16MB of RAM) that i swap in and out of the BA23 box that holds my PDP11/83. mine typically run VMS because i have an interest in operating system design and engineering (though i'm not smart enough to express it in code), though. i do appreciate that the netBSD port is still active though! the PDP11 runs... well, RSX11M+! i'm actually working on getting graphics on the latter two VAXen, i have a VCB02 controller and the boards for eight plane color graphics, but i'm missing a few interconnect cables and a bulkhead connector thing known as a cabkit, basically just gives me actual physical ports to plug stuff into instead of having to run DIY cables out the back of the chassis, which is uglier. the VAXstation, i'm just waiting for a good price on an SPX graphics board. i have a decent number of older computers at this point but those are really the most interesting, the others are oddities or really only interesting to other sickos who are way too deep into this stuff.
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