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Personally, I’m interested in getting to learn about and play with toys that had insurmountable (to me) barriers of cost, access, or obscurity when they were co
by twoodfin 3y ago
Personally, I’m interested in getting to learn about and play with toys that had insurmountable (to me) barriers of cost, access, or obscurity when they were contemporary.
The purest “retro” experience I’ve had wasn’t retro at all: Stepping into an MIT Athena lab a quarter century ago to see an SGI Indy ready for my login.
In a way, it’s like finding out what winning the lottery would have meant for a curious tech nerd.
- icedchai 3y agoYes. I bought an SGI O2 and a NextStation off of ebay for those reasons. I could've never afforded this stuff when it was new.
- wkat4242 3y agoOoh the O2 was a beautiful system. In fact all their systems looked amazing. Where all the others made all this super-boring businessy stuff. Well, except Sun, they had style but not too explicit, they were kinda in the middle. But HP and IBM made boring old boxes :P I did love HP-UX though.
- icedchai 3y agoI always preferred Sun hardware, myself. In the early to mid 90's, SunOS was basically the gold standard for Unix systems and building open source software. Early Solaris releases were pretty rough, but by Solaris 2.5 it was pretty good...
- wkat4242 3y agoYeah I'd love to play around with a real IBM Mainframe. However even in these days they are expensive, plus I don't have the space or power requirements for one of those :) There's are reason they were called "big iron".