From: mechanicjay@sol.smbfc.net   
      
   On Wed, 29 Oct 2025 , mrcoffee  wrote:   
   >Does anyone else have some older/antique computers they enjoy? I've got an   
   >MSX2 that I do some gaming on. I even made my own Din-8 RGB to SCART cable   
   >for it because the output on it doesn't match other Din-8 to SCART cable   
   >types. That was a lot of "fun" because the pin-out chart for that   
   >particular MSX model on the MSX wiki was wrong.   
   >I also saved a Thinkpad 380XD (through the magic of buying another one and   
   >using its parts) and took it from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95. It works   
   >great, only issue is a bad battery, as it common with them unfortunately.   
   >   
   >Anybody else have a favorite older machine they like to play around with?   
      
   Okay, another entry.  Currently typing this from a Personal DECStation 5000/25,   
   running ULTRIX 4.5.  This is a 25Mhz R3000 box with 40MB of RAM.   
      
   I just got everything setup/installed, WITH the Year 2000 patches - ammusingly   
   the Y2K patchset is sure to explicitly note these do NOT address the year   
   2038 problem, BUT that DIGITIAL will produce a year 2038 patchset in due time.   
   Yeah that never happened, but that's okay.   
      
   With a working gcc3.0, I was able to easily compile ircII, slang/slrn, and   
   pine.   
      
   I run an ssh tunnel for unecrypted imap traffic between a machine on my local   
   network and my mailserver, so I'm not sending that password in plain-text   
   across the internet.  I don't actually care about my nntp server or irc   
   server passwords, so plaintext it is for them as it was back in the day.   
      
   :)   
      
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