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I put it on a Pentium 90 just last week. I got 1024x768, it was pretty nice to see some computer from 1994 running current software. I had a usb pci card in th
by kristopolous 6y ago
I put it on a Pentium 90 just last week. I got 1024x768, it was pretty nice to see some computer from 1994 running current software.
I had a usb pci card in there and it just worked. I thought surely some nuanced part of the hardware will prevent a 256GB usb stick from just working. Handled it fine. Still pretty impressed.
The only real dog was ssh setup because the entropy bits were hard to come by.
It was all fun until one of my caps blew on the thing. I haven't turned it on since.
Eventually I plan to make it publicly accessible in some way along with a 386 I have.
I think it'd be hilarious
In 2002 or so I had an SE/30 running netbsd. I had I think 64 MB of memory, and maybe 20 GB storage via external SCSI and an Ethernet add on card. I also had a scsi cdrom hooked up. At the time SCSI hardware was literally worthless and I picked up all this stuff lying next to dumpsters. This machine would probably fetch $1500 today. Kinda funny.
Then again, an equivalent vintage machine, say from 2007 (core 2 duo with DDR1) would be equivalently worthless today. A regret of not hoarding more can't be healthy
Anyway, compiled Mozilla for it. When it started up you could see the elements draw on the screen in human time. Pretty fun. I remember loading slashdot on its tiny black and white screen.
I remember who I gave it to when I moved, I wonder if he still has it
- joombaga 6y agoDid you have to add entropy sources? Or just wait a while?
- kristopolous 6y agoJust wait a while. The entropy conclusion is inferred here. The i/o was low, the cpu was low and it was generating keys and took about 2 minutes. This entropy claim be a fiction, I didn't step through the code. It was induced. Same thing happened earlier this year on a vax running simh on a fx-6300. Took about 15 minutes. I'm putting a 3970 together (although the 10k would probably be better for single threaded simh) but I intend to finish a project on emulated vax netbsd after it's up. You think "forget it, telnet is fine" but then realize how much more ssh is than just log in. It's almost like an entire networking layer, there's so many nice tools and conveniences. Really indispensable