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This is a dual Pentium Pro running NetBSD.
Check out the floppy museum for hints on how to get in touch. Or, you know, ping me on the fediverse. :)
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@ltning@weirdr.net

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[?]Ltning »
@ltning@weirdr.net

Despite all the things IBM did right with OS/2, there were some absolutely mind-boggling decisions made. Today's example: Using Java (version 1.11 or better, mind you) and a Netscape browser plug-in to install TCP/IP. Other than the chicken-and-egg-problem (which is solved by installing the transport services - NIC and protocol drivers - first), there's the fact that they had a perfectly good software installation framework which ran fine on like 6-8MB of RAM (total!). This variant swaps until my CF card starts sweating with 16MB, and is s-l-o-w!

I mean yeah, great, I get a proper BSD-4.4, 32-bit TCP/IP stack and tools. But it's taken me half a day. Getting the installation files over involved loading packet drivers and using in a DOS session. Which works .. surprisingly well. But still .. FixPak43, reboot. MPTS, reboot. Netscape 2.02, reboot. Java 1.18, reboot. Feature Installer plug-in (no reboot). Then, finally, TCP/IP.

All this to have a machine to play with at .


    [?]ltning »
    @ltning@pleroma.anduin.net

    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

    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.

    Alt...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.

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      [?]mbbrutman »
      @mbbrutman@mastodon.sdf.org

      The latest mTCP for DOS is available!

      This version includes some changes to improve TCP reliability on long running (but idle) connections, black & white Sixel graphics in Telnet, a Telnet emulation bug fix, and other small fixes sprinkled around.

      The source code to NetDrive (network attached storage) is also published now - enjoy reading an unholy mix of x86 assembly code talking to Golang over UDP!

      Spread the word! Friends don't let friends run old code ...

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