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Today’s evening: first steps with @… on my vintage 32bit Samsung NC-10. #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

i don't personally do retrocomputing but a lot of the design for #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer is made with an explicit purpose of making retrocomputing nicer (for example, the support for true 5 V TTL that we went to great lengths to preserve, vs. only supporting 3.3 V at most)
i'm quite happy to add support for more retro interfaces to it too

"This is how Lotus was born: as a company featuring unprecedented benefits for their employees, fostering a culture of radical diversity and inclusion, cleverly mixing dashes of 1960s counterculture with the latest 1980s technology.
Two major names stand out in the creation of this culture: first, Janet Axelrod, who passed away in 2021, and who brought her experience at Digital Equipment Corporation in the areas of diversity and inclusion. Second, Freada Kapor Klein."

It's June, so I've got my Javastation off the shelf for the first time in a couple of decades. This is a Javastation Krups, with 100MHz sparc, sold as a diskless workstation. I never realised it had a PPP ROM boot in! Anyway, I should get on and set up networking and a boot server.
(Note: the plastic on the clips on the doors is fragile, 2 just pinged off on me)
#retrocomputing

Guess what arrived in Switzerland today! This looks great, @…!
#retrocomputing #computinghistory

Guess what arrived in Switzerland today! This looks great, @…!
#retrocomputing #computinghistory

Guess what arrived in Switzerland today! This looks great, @…!
#retrocomputing #computinghistory

ein bisschen #retrocomputing #computergeschichte im @… :

This is a comment I left on this video: #retrocomputing

… or “liquid glass” gimmickry, for that matter.
But unlike what most replies suggest, this isn’t #CDE, this is HP-VUE, the ancestor of CDE.
#retrocomputing

… or “liquid glass” gimmickry, for that matter.
But unlike what most replies suggest, this isn’t #CDE, this is HP-VUE, the ancestor of CDE.
#retrocomputing

… or “liquid glass” gimmickry, for that matter.
But unlike what most replies suggest, this isn’t #CDE, this is HP-VUE, the ancestor of CDE.
#retrocomputing

Wahey! Success on my Javastation Krups, this is a Debian Sarge debootstrapped userspace running over NFS.
#retrocomputing

I was just sent this photo, supposedly taken in 1994: Björn Beutel, developer of the Malaga language, and myself are working in the CLUE (Computational Linguistics University of Erlangen) lab.
I’m a bit hesitant to tag this #retrocomputing ;-)
#CompLing

I was just sent this photo, supposedly taken in 1994: Björn Beutel, developer of the Malaga language, and myself are working in the CLUE (Computational Linguistics University of Erlangen) lab.
I’m a bit hesitant to tag this #retrocomputing ;-)
#CompLing

I was just sent this photo, supposedly taken in 1994: Björn Beutel, developer of the Malaga language, and myself are working in the CLUE (Computational Linguistics University of Erlangen) lab.
I’m a bit hesitant to tag this #retrocomputing ;-)
#CompLing

PSA: isc-dhcp-server >~3.0 sets the 'siaddr' in offers to 0 unless you set the next-server entry for a server; and Javastations don't like that. They used to set it to the server IP, like god intended.
(Yours after many hours of debug, bisection, tcpdump and reading the dhcp spec).
So if you're reading old config guides for old machines and using a modern DHCP server...

Progress! By running a #Debian sarge (2005) dhcpd my javastation now gets as far as wanting to tftp! Figuring out what modern dhcpd's do (even the isc one) is for a later date
14:46:20.679254 IP krups.44549 > 192.168.69.1.tftp: TFTP, length 17, RRQ "C0A84502" octet
#retrocomputing