@PurpleJillybeans Another vote for OS/2, but do some homework ahead of time to figure out where to get drivers and FixPacks. I ran OS/2 2.11 on a 486 and on an early Pentium years ago, then I upgraded to OS/2 Warp. I had to choose my hardware carefully to ensure proper driver support.

Windows 95 and 98 were mediocre in comparison, but I never had to worry about hardware drivers.

#retrocomputing

This is hastur.retro.lan, one of my three retro PC desktops. Nominally I call it my DOS/WfW311 PC, but it has an external CF bracket so I can switch OSs easily. Right now I have one card with DOS/Win3 on it, and another with Win95. I was running an old Linux distro on it but decided to move that to a VM.

Any ideas for another OS to try? Something that'd run well on ca. 1997 hardware, and with a lot of fun uses.

#RetroComputing

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A vintage PC in a beige tower case. A Sony DVD-RW drive and internal ZIP drive take two of the three 5.25" bays, while the 3.5" bays are taken by a Gotek floppy emulator and a real 3.5" drive (which sadly doesn't work very well). A navy blue case badge indicates that the case was originally used for a Telekol Integra-X telephone system. A silver and black USB sound interface is sitting atop the case, used to capture audio for streaming.

For any #MTCP, #DOS and #Retrocomputing nerds out there who are also running httpserv and want pretty graphs, poke me for a recipe for a hideosly bloated #logstash configuration to ingest the UDP logs.

I feed it to #Graylog which stores the data in #Opensearch - a pipeline that combined (and this is accurate) needs, conservatively, 4096 times as much RAM as the floppy museum itself (8MB).

And while looking at this when making this screenshot: I wonder why someone would hit http//floppy.museum with a Referer-header indicating they come from a salesforce-dot-com address? http-colon-slashslash-136.146.46.127 (about halfway down the list).

#msdos #bloatware #theremustbeabetterway

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Screenshot of a Graylog dashboard showing number of hits in the last 24h, a world map with geographic distribution of the source IPs, a doughnut showing the distribution of pages visited (mostly the root path), a bar graph showing request counts per URI over time, and finally a list of all the recent requests. This list contains timestamp, which museum server handled the request, the remote IP, the country code of the remote IP, the path requested, and the Referer, if any.

@cr1901 I'm a packrat so I know I have it here somewhere. The hard part is remembering if it was a diskette or a CD-ROM.

It turns out I was looking for a CD-ROM when it was on diskette. And the drivers that I tried to download and use were for a later hardware revision, so they refused to install.

When I did get the right drivers, it then demanded the WIN98 install CD-ROM. So I had to pray the drive was still working.

1.5 hours later it is done ...

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I hate how Win98 handles device drivers.

"I see you've previously used this card for 25 years, but you removed it for a few minutes and now I'm going to make you reinstall the drivers from scratch. Please find the diskette or CD ROM from 25 years ago, and nothing will work until you do. Thank you for your attention to this matter."

#retrocomputing

This weekend June 21st & 22nd is the Pacific Commodore Expo NW FEAT. Robert Bernardo! 11am-5pm at INTRASPACE in #seattle #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #retrogaming

https://sdf.org/icf

#commodore #amiga #event

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A commodore super pet

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An amiga 3000

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Dan Sanderson showing off Mega65

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Robert bernardo with a C64

Some pictures of KICKI a DEC PDP-10 model KI10 sn 522 currently in preservation.

Would you like to support us? Visit: https://icm.museum

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

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The front of a KI10 CPU

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A side view of the KI10

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Front of the wirewrapped backplane

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The CPU is made up of TTL integrated circuits on DEC flipchips.

DOStodon starts, it feels VERY slow when fetching network data and apparently liballegro and the ATI Mach64 graphics card are not the best friends.
When I find the time I'll check my stash for an S3 or other PCI card from that era...

#DOStodon #MSDOS #JavaScript #RetroComputing

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DOS directory listing showing DOStodon

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DOStodon showing the home timeline, the image is weirdly cropped left and right

For my next test I'm using a modded P133 with 16MiB.
It is called "Project DoomBox" and it is a PC in a wooden chest, complete with display, speakers and all.
I built it back in 2017 from spare parts and the game launcher was my first C program on MS-DOS

#DOStodon #MSDOS #JavaScript #RetroComputing

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a wooden chest with a PC keyboard in front of it

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the chest was opened, a display, two speakers and a CD-ROM drive is visible

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BIOS hardware info screen showing a P133 with 16MiB RAM

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a graphical menu with the doom title screen on the right and a list of games on the right

This KL10 might just run again

https://icm.museum/blog/?p=38

This is MIT-MC.ARPA, currently in preservation. While it may not be necessary to run all of its subsystems, we might be able to bring up the 3 bay KL10 CPU and Front End processor and emulate the rest.

We are evaluating it this summer. Would you like to help? Check out the blog and follow our activity.

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

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The KL10 CPU, DNA87, DF10C and KL-udge

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Bays 2 and 3 of the KL10 CPU

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A detail of the KL-udge panel in the KL10 I/O

Jurassic Park AGA isn't overly polite, but at least you know without a doubt what you're doing wrong. I like it!

#Amiga #Commodore #WinUAE #Emulation #RetroGaming #RetroGames #Error #RetroComputing

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Jurassic Park AGA - FATAL ERROR!

Happiness is a warm soldering iron.

#retrocomputing

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An XT-IDE card being assembled from a kit.

KA10 sn 137 at James Cook University in Queensland Australia. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #1970s #vintage

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an operator working on the decsystem-10 at James Cook University QLD Australia

late for Commodore Amiga day? The 3000 lives again after leaky battery mess clean up on the motherboard. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #amiga

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A Commodore Amiga 3000

lamp testing on PDP-6 sn 4 with @aap simulator to replace some bad lights. running Terry Winograd’s SHRDLU under Type 340 simulation.

Want to support our efforts?
https://icm.museum/join.html

#retrocomputing #ai #mit #vintage #vintagecomputing

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The remaining pieces of the UWA PDP-6

Is anyone here involved with Vogons? I keep finding stuff linked to there, and I want to be involved and go there so much but I just cannot read the pages with that wild colour scheme in place.

It needs a simple dark-on-light theme so bad. I limped though the account creation a couple of years ago and all that seems to exist in the settings is an option for an even worse one.

Anyone?

#retrocomputing #accessibility

Happyiness is testing a spare floppy drive ...

#retrocomputing #pcjr

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Testing a spare 3.5" floppy drive on a PCjr with the case lid open.

The PDP-10 that is a KL10 that is a DECSYSTEM-20 was so loud, it would put a smile on anyone's face in it's proximity to the marketing department.

Microsoft had one installed at the Bellevue, WA office known as "Heating Plant" or HEAT.

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

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Two smiling individuals in front of a DECSYSTEM-20 PDP-10 model KL10.

Which retro game fits your personality?

Loom (Lucasarts/Brian Moriarty), Doom (id Software) or .... Boom (Morrie Brianarty/Space Quest X)?

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #Games #ComputerGames

This is the early configuration of what the DEC PDP-6 was to become. originally the console was crammed into half the space for production, similar to the style of the PDP-5. The type 340 display remained mounted in bay 1 for the first production unit.

#history #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #1960s

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A mock up of what was to become the design of the PDP-6

Updated SerialDisk which now provides up to 4 RK05 virtual disks. Did you know this style of pack inspired the TRON IDENTITY DISC? Alan Kay would often bike with a disk in his backpack which was incorporated into the TRON script by Steven Lisberger.

The FORTRAN RunTime System (FRTS) has an idle pattern and is used to load Colossal Cave.

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrogaming

Not a museum, but there are some lovely #retrocomputing devices on display in Graz, Austria.

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IBM AS/400.

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Lots of old portable computers.

Today is all about PDP-8/e!

We're open and will have a PDP-8/e and Lab-8/e running. The VT180 (CP/M) is getting cleaned up to be used in terminal mode

Interested in helping us with preservation and remote access?

https://icm.museum/join.html

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrogaming #vintage

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Cleaning up the keys and checking the spring contacts on a DEC VT180 keyboard

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A DEC VT180 in terminal mode, a PDP-8/e and a LAB-8/e running

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Cleaning up the keys and checking the spring contacts on a DEC VT180 keyboard

To think that during the late 80s and early 90s, the IT industry was so fast-paced and full of new ideas (and, in fairness, #vaporware) that magazines like #InfoWorld came out every week and had several dozen (not counting the ads!) densely-packed pages with information, news, tests and reviews, announcements, interviews and speculation.

So many of the products - both hardware and software - are mind-blowingly awesome, like the "Earthstation III", a 386SX built into a regular sized keyboard (RPI400 anyone?). I've yet to find one on eBay or elsewhere..

I don't usually link to Google resources (evil bastards), but I'm consuming stuff like this with great apetite: https://books.google.com/books?id=VTwEAAAAMBAJ

#Retrocomputing

PANDAmonium reigns at 三六美兎神社だっちゃ〜🛸

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #panda #うる星やつら

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DEC large systems poster

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A decorated KS10

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A noren for the 36bit shrine entry

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An old beige tower computer on a desk, attached is a monitor displaying Solitaire running on a Windows 3.1 desktop, there's a Microsoft serial mouse, an IBM Model M keyboard, Cambridge Soundworks speakers and a Zip disk sticking cheekily out of a Zip drive in the case.