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You daily-drove a NeXTstation until 2008?! That's badass! kudos. I always appreciate people using stuff for as long as possible, especially when it's somethi

You daily-drove a NeXTstation until 2008?! That's badass! kudos. I always appreciate people using stuff for as long as possible, especially when it's something awesome like a NeXT system, haha :) Dude.. just found the "for ebay" album on your Flickr profile... omg :( (Oooh also SGI Onyx2.. nice. I search the term "sgi" on Craigslist every day. All I have is a pair of O2's)

UweSchmidt 4y ago
Just curious, how did you find OP's Flickr profile? HN profile is empty. Are you personally acquainted? Or do people routinely run 3rd party intelligence tools to connect online profiles?
- fragmede 4y ago
  it's linked on another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33605127 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33605127
  - UweSchmidt 4y ago
    thanks
pjmlp 4y ago
That is indeed incredbible, my graduation thesis was porting my supervisors' particle engine from Objective-C/OpenGL into C++/OpenGL/MFC, because his NeXT Cube was going to be decommissioned. This was still during the 1990's.
- BirAdam 4y ago
  I have a non-working Indigo 2 10k that I keep meaning to refurbish, but finding a monitor that supports sync on green that still works is exceedingly difficult.
  - wazoox 4y ago
    IIRC many Samsung, EIZO screens from recent past support SOG.
    - helf 4y ago
      I heartily recommend EIZO LCDs. They are awesome. Support everything. And you can fine tune everything including clocks from their onboard settings.
  - nyanpasu64 4y ago
    I wonder if you can convince a dirt-cheap GBS8200 with GBS-Control mod, to convert sync-on-green to VGA. I'm not sure what options are available for pure sync extraction, since the GBS-Control also does color conversion, deinterlacing, rescaling frames to more or less lines, simulated scanlines on LCD displays, etc.
anthk 4y ago
People used freebsd in 2004 with lynx under a 486.
- Rediscover 4y ago
  lynx(1) rocks. My favorite browser. 26 bookmark files, used daily. Plus my emacs-w3m-lynx-bookmarkextentsion.el.
helf 4y ago
My friends had a running joke about me “over utilizing hardware”. I used a NEC Versa P/75 (pentium 75 (no mmx), 40mb ram, 350mb HDD, 4GB CF card, modded ORiNOCO Gold cardbus WiFi card, heavily modded Windows 95b (not 95c, mind you. No no. Has to be 95b for reasons) for years. Dual battery packs I upgraded. Ram for 10+ hours and worked fine for MP3s, IRC, SSH, etc. :). I still have it. I didn’t stop using it on the regular till probably 2015-2016. I have a Portege 3110ct that I upgraded to 192mb ram, 64gb ide ssd, usb2.0 pcmcia card, usb WiFi, etc. that I still use off and on. It was my primary mobile system for about 8 years. Runs a stripped down heavily customized Debian based Linux. If you are mostly doing textual things, you can happily exist on anything made in the last 30 years assuming it has a basic tcp/ip stack and preferably SSHv2 support. I recently dug my 386sx40 I grew up on out of storage. It desperately needs a ram upgrade and an FPU. Right now it has a 512k ISA trident video card, NE2000 ISA NIC, 250mb boot drive, 160mb storage drive, 12mb ram. Runs windows 3.11 with CalmiraXP, Win32s, TCP/IP stack, lots of mods to the base OS (kernel tweaks for the cooperative multitasking functions etc). … I feel like an old man ranting about the good old days. I’m only 35. I swear. Lol
- Spooky23 4y ago
  Those old Toshibas were amazing. I had a Tecra 750CDM that was incredible - I won it at work… I was like a $5000 laptop at the time and included a detachable webcam.
  - helf 4y ago
    Damn nice. Yeah I love the old Toshibas. Same with the old NECs.

UweSchmidt 4y ago

Just curious, how did you find OP's Flickr profile? HN profile is empty. Are you personally acquainted? Or do people routinely run 3rd party intelligence tools to connect online profiles?

fragmede 4y ago
it's linked on another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33605127 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33605127
- UweSchmidt 4y ago
  thanks

pjmlp 4y ago

That is indeed incredbible, my graduation thesis was porting my supervisors' particle engine from Objective-C/OpenGL into C++/OpenGL/MFC, because his NeXT Cube was going to be decommissioned. This was still during the 1990's.

BirAdam 4y ago
I have a non-working Indigo 2 10k that I keep meaning to refurbish, but finding a monitor that supports sync on green that still works is exceedingly difficult.
- wazoox 4y ago
  IIRC many Samsung, EIZO screens from recent past support SOG.
  - helf 4y ago
    I heartily recommend EIZO LCDs. They are awesome. Support everything. And you can fine tune everything including clocks from their onboard settings.
- nyanpasu64 4y ago
  I wonder if you can convince a dirt-cheap GBS8200 with GBS-Control mod, to convert sync-on-green to VGA. I'm not sure what options are available for pure sync extraction, since the GBS-Control also does color conversion, deinterlacing, rescaling frames to more or less lines, simulated scanlines on LCD displays, etc.

anthk 4y ago

People used freebsd in 2004 with lynx under a 486.

Rediscover 4y ago
lynx(1) rocks. My favorite browser. 26 bookmark files, used daily. Plus my emacs-w3m-lynx-bookmarkextentsion.el.

helf 4y ago

My friends had a running joke about me “over utilizing hardware”. I used a NEC Versa P/75 (pentium 75 (no mmx), 40mb ram, 350mb HDD, 4GB CF card, modded ORiNOCO Gold cardbus WiFi card, heavily modded Windows 95b (not 95c, mind you. No no. Has to be 95b for reasons) for years. Dual battery packs I upgraded. Ram for 10+ hours and worked fine for MP3s, IRC, SSH, etc. :). I still have it. I didn’t stop using it on the regular till probably 2015-2016. I have a Portege 3110ct that I upgraded to 192mb ram, 64gb ide ssd, usb2.0 pcmcia card, usb WiFi, etc. that I still use off and on. It was my primary mobile system for about 8 years. Runs a stripped down heavily customized Debian based Linux. If you are mostly doing textual things, you can happily exist on anything made in the last 30 years assuming it has a basic tcp/ip stack and preferably SSHv2 support. I recently dug my 386sx40 I grew up on out of storage. It desperately needs a ram upgrade and an FPU. Right now it has a 512k ISA trident video card, NE2000 ISA NIC, 250mb boot drive, 160mb storage drive, 12mb ram. Runs windows 3.11 with CalmiraXP, Win32s, TCP/IP stack, lots of mods to the base OS (kernel tweaks for the cooperative multitasking functions etc). … I feel like an old man ranting about the good old days. I’m only 35. I swear. Lol

Spooky23 4y ago
Those old Toshibas were amazing. I had a Tecra 750CDM that was incredible - I won it at work… I was like a $5000 laptop at the time and included a detachable webcam.
- helf 4y ago
  Damn nice. Yeah I love the old Toshibas. Same with the old NECs.