From: soulkarsten@gmail.com
TheTue, 11 Nov 2025 04:14:09 +0000, 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.
>
> :)
This is actually very impressive and an amazing testament to the
infrastructure of
usenet and Irc.
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