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[#] Tue Apr 12 2022 20:16:34 EDT from Nurb432

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Seems i lied 2 times.   I also have a T1000 in its original box, in the back of my closet shelf.   So i think that makes 3 devices, not including my Newton.

Was digging in there for a fresh spool of filament, noticed it up there, minding its own business.  I thought i had given it away with the rest of the stuff.



[#] Wed Apr 20 2022 14:02:33 EDT from LadySerenaKitty

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My small "collection" of just 3 vintage machines.



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[#] Wed Apr 20 2022 18:18:26 EDT from Nurb432

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I had ( and used when it was still new ) a purple indigo 2. 



[#] Wed Apr 20 2022 22:57:21 EDT from LadySerenaKitty

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I don't have an Indigo 2.  Just the Indy, O2, and that Quadra 660av.

Wed Apr 20 2022 18:18:26 EDT from Nurb432

I had ( and used when it was still new ) a purple indigo 2. 



 



[#] Sat May 07 2022 14:03:20 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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I like the 729 MHz PowerPC machine you've got there :)



[#] Sat May 07 2022 17:12:16 EDT from Nurb432

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Some days i wish i had kept my ( Lombard ) G3 laptop.  It left during the great purge. But it really didnt take up *that* much space.  ( or my original mac portable. Which of course didnt work due to the batteries being long since toast. ( who in the hell designs a machine where you cant even plug it in and use it, without fully functioning batteries.. )



[#] Sun Jul 10 2022 11:40:42 EDT from LadySerenaKitty

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I have a SCSI2SD board for my Indy.  It's currently in my Quadra 660av, but I'm going to move it back to the Indy.  I ordered a 256GB SD card recently and when it arrives, we shall see how a computer from 1994 handles such a vast amount of disk space.  This is gonna be interestering.

 

I really should get another SCSI2SD board for the Quadra 660av.



[#] Sun Jul 10 2022 12:36:15 EDT from Nurb432

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Will the OS see it all?



[#] Mon Jul 11 2022 04:25:34 EDT from LadySerenaKitty

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Sun Jul 10 2022 12:36:15 EDT from Nurb432

Will the OS see it all?



We shall see.  MIPS is a 64-bit machine internally, all the registers and such are 64 bits wide.  The only distinction between 64-bit IRIX and 32-bit IRIX is the address bus width.



[#] Sat Jul 16 2022 10:18:23 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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For anyone interested...

[ http://www.cpm.z80.de/ ]

The new news on the "unofficial" CP/M web site is that the actual owners of CP/M have finally, after decades, officially released all of the source code under a clear open source license. So if you're looking to build that awesome new CP/M machine, you can build and ship them with authentic CP/M.
:)

(I know, not that big a deal ... but I was a big CP/M user before IBM ruined everything, so it has some nostalgia for me.)

[#] Sat Jul 16 2022 10:19:12 EDT from Nurb432

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Dammit you beat me to it :)   I saw this an hour or so ago but had stuff to do.



[#] Sat Sep 10 2022 16:06:01 EDT from Nurb432

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This weekend, i might actually get around to installing a z80 core on my pano FPGA, so it can run cp/m

Its why i bought it.. been collecting dust ever since it got here wondering what its purpose in life is..



[#] Mon Oct 03 2022 09:17:24 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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I'm not sure what I'd *do* with a CP/M machine though. Maybe enjoy some nostalgia for 20 minutes poking around with it, then realize it's not really useful for anything anymore. I guess that's all nostalgia is really about anyway -- trying to re-create the way you felt back in some other era. The huge metal boxes and the 8" floppies and playing C&W Adventure, learning to program on DR CBASIC while my friends all had Apples ... on the other hand, I was suffering through the hell-on-earth of middle school, so maybe it wasn't the greatest of times.

[#] Mon Oct 03 2022 13:43:20 EDT from Greg Nesbitt

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I spent many, many years on a TRS-80 Model III quite happily. Z80 is a great platform to learn assembly language. I was already a wiz at Basic. We also had a FORTRAN compiler, which I never really got the hang of. It wasn't fully F77 compatible. FORMAT this, FORMAT that. Ugh.
I have from time to time installed a Model III emulator and played around with TRSDOS and DOSPLUS again. Found that Pyramid game I spent years on and never solved. After a couple hours I'm pretty much over it. But it is fun to look back and remember.

[#] Mon Oct 03 2022 16:46:42 EDT from Nurb432

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Realistically, yes.

Mon Oct 03 2022 09:17:24 AM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar
. I guess that's all nostalgia is really about anyway -- trying to re-create the way you felt back in some other era.

 



[#] Mon Oct 03 2022 18:52:19 EDT from LadySerenaKitty

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Vintage Machine 1: MIPS3 R4400SC 100MHz 64MB memory, IRIX 6.5.22

Vintage Machine 2: MIPS4 R5000SC 180MHz 128MB memory, IRIX 6.5.22

Vintage Machine 3: M68040 25MHz 12MB memory, Mac OS 8.1



[#] Mon Oct 03 2022 20:27:01 EDT from Nurb432

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All i have left is the PX8.  

z80 + cp/m



[#] Mon Oct 03 2022 20:28:15 EDT from Nurb432

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wait i lied. Atari 1200xl too. i forget someone gave me that AFTER the great purge..  i didnt want it as i was done collecting, but he was so excited to give it to me..



[#] Tue Oct 04 2022 11:57:30 EDT from Greg Nesbitt

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Vintage Machine 1: MIPS3 R4400SC 100MHz 64MB memory, IRIX 6.5.22

Vintage Machine 2: MIPS4 R5000SC 180MHz 128MB memory, IRIX 6.5.22

oooooh sweet sweet SGI gear. That's a teal and a purple Indigo, or something else?

Sitting at my Dad's place is an R10000 Indigo2, 384MB memory, I can't recall what IRIX release it is running. Complete with the weighs-a-fuckton 21" Trinitron CRT. It also has a working CDROM and floppy drive, and (miraculously enough) a working install set on CD.
He wants rid of it. I had my own, but parted ways with it about 10 years ago (stupidest mistake ever). I'm bringing it home, someday, somehow. Hiding places are hard in a 2 bedroom apartment. But I'll figure something out.

[#] Tue Oct 04 2022 12:17:46 EDT from LadySerenaKitty

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Tue Oct 04 2022 11:57:30 EDT from Greg Nesbitt
Vintage Machine 1: MIPS3 R4400SC 100MHz 64MB memory, IRIX 6.5.22

Vintage Machine 2: MIPS4 R5000SC 180MHz 128MB memory, IRIX 6.5.22

oooooh sweet sweet SGI gear. That's a teal and a purple Indigo, or something else?

Sitting at my Dad's place is an R10000 Indigo2, 384MB memory, I can't recall what IRIX release it is running. Complete with the weighs-a-fuckton 21" Trinitron CRT. It also has a working CDROM and floppy drive, and (miraculously enough) a working install set on CD.
He wants rid of it. I had my own, but parted ways with it about 10 years ago (stupidest mistake ever). I'm bringing it home, someday, somehow. Hiding places are hard in a 2 bedroom apartment. But I'll figure something out.

My SGIs are an Indy and an O2.  I'd love to get an Octane2.



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