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vampiress , 4 months ago to random

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NewtonMark , 4 months ago

@trent @vampiress I once had a housemate whose hobby was collecting old Unix computers, and we had an 11/780 in the kitchen.

His pride and joy was a Multimax 310, which was a 1980s supercomputer designed to support hundreds or perhaps thousands of users. His had 8 CPUs and about a gigabyte of RAM, which was not quite fully loaded but pretty close.

The Multimax corporation designed the Annex terminal servers as a way of getting lots of users onto a machine that only had four serial ports. The Annex product was divested to Encore, which sold it to pretty much every Uni in Australia in the late 1980s. If your Uni had Sun or DEC compute resources, you probably accessed them on an RS-232 terminal connected to an Annex.

(We had several in the house for incoming modem lines)

NewtonMark , 4 months ago

@vampiress @jpm @trent NetBSD will run on it with a reasonably modern compiler toolchain (I think they switched to LLVM)

vampiress , 5 months ago to random

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NewtonMark , 5 months ago

@vampiress We had MacintoshPlus computers at school. There was a system extension called MacSpew that caused it to make a wet sloppy sounding vomiting noise whenever it ejected a floppy disk, and I made a point of putting it in every System folder I could find.

NewtonMark , 5 months ago to random

Double demerit points are in force this long weekend, so get a plane.

NewtonMark OP , 5 months ago

@vampiress Vne — It’s not just a good idea, it’s … well actually it’s just a good idea.

stilgherrian , 5 months ago to random

“More Aussies turned to News Corp than the ABC for news during 2023” https://mumbrella.com.au/more-aussies-turned-to-news-corp-than-the-abc-for-news-during-2023-813014

NewtonMark , 5 months ago

@stilgherrian @daedalus @vampiress This discovery fills me with mirth and joy.

vampiress , 5 months ago to random

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NewtonMark , 5 months ago

@trent @vampiress Did you do the trick where you could double the amount of chip RAM by soldering chips piggy-back onto the existing ones, with the CS pin pulled out sideways and wired to one of the address bus pins on the Fat Agnes? That hack was the mark of the true Amiga aficionado.

NewtonMark , 5 months ago

@vampiress @trent n00b.