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If it's the same one that brings the equipment to Retro Computing events. He sadly has declined to publish any kind of archive of the software for other hobbyis
by CursedSilicon 1y ago
If it's the same one that brings the equipment to Retro Computing events. He sadly has declined to publish any kind of archive of the software for other hobbyists :(
I understand that he's under no obligation to do so. But a lot of us worry that if the hard disks die or if he loses interest in the hobby, that software will be irrevocably lost for all of us
- Maxious 1y agoThe youtube stream has a link in the description for EEPROM dumps https://hackaday.io/project/178144-reverse-engineering-the-weather-star-4000 https://hackaday.io/project/178144-reverse-engineering-the-w...
- CursedSilicon 1y agoThere's some that runs specifically on SGI machines to do the TV graphics that has not been dumped afaik
- genewitch 1y agoI refuse to be nerd sniped; do you know what the input to the SGI is and what it outputs? looking at the video it seems that most of that is done "in hardware", the SGI could just be providing the actual updated information, and it could just be for nostalgia or "if it is not broke..."
- CursedSilicon 1y agohttps://www.twcarchive.com/wiki/Weather_Star_XL https://www.twcarchive.com/wiki/Weather_Star_XL Modified SGI O2 in a rackable form-factor
- exikyut 1y agoI didn't even realize I wasn't reading Wikipedia for the first couple minutes.