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What sort of stuff do you use that machine for? Just curious how people use old (=not new) tech.
by dbtc 6y ago
What sort of stuff do you use that machine for? Just curious how people use old (=not new) tech.
- unixhero 6y agoI own old computers, from my perspective: SSH Writing things Being productive and having productive workflows in old software, well that's not a sin.
- cptnapalm 6y agoUNIX-y stuff. Nothing I couldn't do with my daily driver, honestly, but the keyboard is better, I like the screen better (1400 x 1050) and I get a dorky smile when I compile things and its sparc64. I just like using it, moreso than the Thinkpad and Acer laptops it has outlasted. I did have a Tadpole Sparcle (which I liked so much I jumped at the Viper). It came in very handy once when I was learning C and was getting different answers depending on the machine. A deep dive into old newsgroup postings informed me that I had an endian problem. I was excited that I had one of those. I do have a fondness for computing oddities which is why I bought the Sparcle in the first place and also why I have a "small" 1999 IBM mainframe.
- _wldu 6y agoI have an old Sun netra. I occasionally compile software on it just for testing. It's the only real big-endian system I have anymore. It sounds like a jet getting ready to take off, so I don't run it much.