From: Jamili@ftl.net   
      
   On Tue, 11 Nov 2025 04:14:09 -0000 (UTC), Mechanicjay wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
   > :)   
      
   You should try to compile BitchX for the irc client, would fit right in :)   
      
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