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spent the day cleaning leaky batteries out of cassette decks and heck ya i can reliably save and load data from the ZX81#retrocomputing...

spent the day cleaning leaky batteries out of cassette decks and heck ya i can reliably save and load data from the ZX81

#retrocomputing #sinclair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY0skD0QdcY

with a little more RAM we can complete the render(the Timex 1000 had a base 2k which is plenty for this)mandelbrot in 20 lines of sinclair...

with a little more RAM we can complete the render

(the Timex 1000 had a base 2k which is plenty for this)

mandelbrot in 20 lines of sinclair basic (which doesn't support multiple statements per line)

#retrocomputing #sinclair

haha mandelbrot go brrrrr... damn itthis definitely has 1k of RAM in it, like the UK models, which made these notoriously useless given the...

haha mandelbrot go brrrrr... damn it

this definitely has 1k of RAM in it, like the UK models, which made these notoriously useless given the framebuffer takes most of that

my program overlaps vram and it can't complete the render!

moar memory is absolutely necessary to do anything useful

the blu-tack trick is also absolutely necessary, and totally works!

#retrocomputing #sinclair

i've wanted to get my hands on a ZX Spectrum but those seem to be rather unobtainable in the US...what does haunt estate sales here is...

i've wanted to get my hands on a ZX Spectrum but those seem to be rather unobtainable in the US...

what does haunt estate sales here is the ZX81!

most places tell you this sold in the US as the Timex Sinclair 1000

but this is an NTSC system, with FCC IDs and everything, branded purely Sinclair?

i've not seen any explanation for why the branding changed

#retrocomputing #sinclair

still sorting through my last haul, it seems i now own a Netronics ELF II?a hobbyist computer from 1978there's tape and very chunky...

still sorting through my last haul, it seems i now own a Netronics ELF II?

a hobbyist computer from 1978

there's tape and very chunky video(!) on the main board, a RAM board and an RS232 card

and some kind of wire wrapped custom job, with a LEDs and ROM sockets maybe?

#retrocomputing

part 2#midi #synth

part 2

#midi #synth

i got my Yamaha FB-01 and Digitech RP-1 effect pedal plugged in for stream shenanigansi need to repair some output jacks and do the filter...

i got my Yamaha FB-01 and Digitech RP-1 effect pedal plugged in for stream shenanigans

i need to repair some output jacks

and do the filter mod on the FB-01 that makes it not aggressively muffle that crunchy, sparkly FM tone 🤔

#midi #synth

repost to unlock a millennial core memory#retrocomputing #Netscape #Win95 #Windows95 #CRT #oldweb #retroweb #YeOldeInternet

repost to unlock a millennial core memory

#retrocomputing #Netscape #Win95 #Windows95 #CRT #oldweb #retroweb #YeOldeInternet

attn Minneapolis locals doing retro datacenters there's a bunch of cisco gear at the St Paul ax-manthree Cisco 2600 for $15 eachi bought...

attn Minneapolis locals doing retro datacenters there's a bunch of cisco gear at the St Paul ax-man

three Cisco 2600 for $15 each

i bought the 2800 🙃

i believe these are usable for bridging in to #GlobalTalk

#axman #retrocomputing

w00t thanks old friend i just recently found on steam

w00t thanks old friend i just recently found on steam

wikipedia also notes Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 AS (the first version!) branched from RHL 7.2 and also released in 2002being an enterprise...

wikipedia also notes Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 AS (the first version!) branched from RHL 7.2 and also released in 2002

being an enterprise release it had updates until 2009, a strong contender for last distribution to ship Netscape 4.x

can't find any RHEL 2.1 ISOs out there but there was a CentOS build that's still up, the file list indicates yes, Netscape 4.8 is in there so lets fire that up:

https://vault.centos.org/2.1/final/isos/

installer is identical to RHL with different graphics, and once installed VESA graphics don't work out of the box and i can't be bothered to figure that one out so not much to see...

with some finagling we can SSH in from a modern machine and run the last version of the OG Netscape

it lives, again!

#retrocomputing #retroweb #Netscape #CentOS

while we're here lets round out this collection of 2002 web browsers with Konqueror 3the progenitor of WebKit and Blink, which are now...

while we're here lets round out this collection of 2002 web browsers with Konqueror 3

the progenitor of WebKit and Blink, which are now the most popular browser engines on the planet

here's your winner of the browser wars, folks! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#retrocomputing #retroweb #Mozilla

the primary browser is Mozilla 0.9.9things i forgot: Mozilla resolutely stuck close to the original Netscape UI, it was Firefox that later...

the primary browser is Mozilla 0.9.9

things i forgot: Mozilla resolutely stuck close to the original Netscape UI, it was Firefox that later re-invented the UI (and made a lot of people angry and was widely regarded as a bad move)

if you're really missing the old Netscape UI, the Mozilla application suite lives on as SeaMonkey, which is still making releases!

http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

also Galeon, a native GTK UI on the mozilla engine that i actually used for a while around this time as it was slightly less bloaty than straight Mozilla, which was quite a sluggish beast compared to Netscape 4.x

mozilla never got less bloaty, PCs just got faster...

#retrocomputing #retroweb #Mozilla

THERE'S OUR BOY! Netscape 4.79!not quite the last version of Netscape, but close#retrocomputing #retroweb #Netscape #Linux #RedHat

THERE'S OUR BOY! Netscape 4.79!

not quite the last version of Netscape, but close

#retrocomputing #retroweb #Netscape #Linux #RedHat

logging on... to GNOME 1.4!remember Eazel?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EazelAndy Hertzfeld and a number of other Apple alumni decided to...

logging on

... to GNOME 1.4!

remember Eazel?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eazel

Andy Hertzfeld and a number of other Apple alumni decided to help turn Linux into a proper desktop OS, resulting in the Nautilus file manager

...which came down to being yet another f-cking web browser, as was the style of the time 🙃

in true 90's startup style, Eazel released Nautilus 1.0 in March 2001 and promptly fired everyone, ultimately perishing in the dot bomb after failing to find a market to exploit 💸

the remaining crew went back to Apple and ended up on the Safari team

though drastically evolved (and renamed File Manager) since then, Nautilus is still Gnome's file manager today (does it still have a web browser in it?)

#retrocomputing #GNOME #Linux

IT'S THE BEEFY MIRACLE!http://beefymiracle.org/remember when having a rescue floppy was considered critical?

IT'S THE BEEFY MIRACLE!

http://beefymiracle.org/

remember when having a rescue floppy was considered critical?

a Red Hat history lesson in the Windows style installer slideshow

a Red Hat history lesson in the Windows style installer slideshow

lets gooooo...... uhh there seems to be a race condition when ejecting the CD on a modern machine, if you get a weird error regarding eject,...

lets gooooo...

... uhh there seems to be a race condition when ejecting the CD on a modern machine, if you get a weird error regarding eject, setting the CPU execution cap to 2% in VirtualBox works reliably for me

you can uncap it once its installed, or leave it on for authentic speed 🙃

lets revel in some now rarely seen early 2000's linux installer aesthetics and INSTALL ALL THE THINGS!and confirm Netscape is being...

lets revel in some now rarely seen early 2000's linux installer aesthetics and INSTALL ALL THE THINGS!

and confirm Netscape is being installed

welp as the internet goes to shit we're primed for a surge of Web 1.0 nostalgiait occurs to me i used the Linux version of Netscape...

welp as the internet goes to shit we're primed for a surge of Web 1.0 nostalgia

it occurs to me i used the Linux version of Netscape quite a bit back in the day, and i haven't seen it in ages

such old binaries aren't going to run on a modern Linux without an equally old userspace to go with it...

so what was the last distribution to ship with Netscape?

i was a big Red Hat fan until the recent CentOS farce, lets look there

wikipedia tells us Red Hat Linux 7.3 was the last version to ship Netscape, notably not to be confused with the much newer RH*E*L which is what you'll get if you try and google it...

with the death of FTP a lot of old software has quietly disappeared off the internet with no obvious mirrors (no one got a full mirror of the Netscape FTP site??)

but there's a full retail copy of RHL 7.3 on internet archive:

https://archive.org/details/red-hat-linux-7.3/

lets fire it up in a VM!

#retrocomputing #retroweb #netscape #redhat