SGI Gets…Err…Got Medieval on Microsoft, HP, and Sun
Just a quick one here, folks. Last week I posted about the crazy HP Series 700 marketing video from 1995, thinking it might be the enduring lord of all crazy tech marketing videos. And, it may be — but...
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A Song for Steve Jobs: “Vision in Black” by Nathan J. and The NeXTsteps
At the risk of making this seem like the Blog of Amusing Computing Promos of Yesteryear, what with my recent posts, I wanted to share something I ran across the other day. That crazy HP Series 700...
View ArticleNeXTstation Turbo Color Battery Swap
I recently rearranged the computer room a bit to bring the NeXTstation Turbo Color (which I picked up from a refurb outfit in Frederick, MD back in 2000) to the fore, having spent a good bit of time...
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That Time I Ran Linux on the Desktop
I stumbled upon a discussion of GNU/Linux on the desktop on Reddit recently, with someone predicting that “next year” will be the year of Linux on the desktop (with tongue-in-cheek and as it ever was)....
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A Quick Tour of the HP-9000 712/100 NEXTSTEP Workstation
February was NeXT Month over at r/Rerobattlestations. Being a huge NeXT fan, I was eager to take part in the event, which entailed taking a photo or video of a retro computer running NEXTSTEP or...
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A Little App Called ‘FlyLab’ Running on My NeXTstation
Last week was Back To School Week at r/Retrobattlestations. The challenge was to photograph your vintage computer running an educational program of some sort. For this one, a rather obscure little app...
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My SGI O2: Down Off the Shelf and Back On the Desk
A quick update regarding the SGI O2 system I’ve written about a few times over the years. I grabbed an O2 setup on eBay back in 2003 (went in looking for an Indy, but the O2 seemed a better...
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Tapping the HP-9000 Gecko for “Not x86 Week”
This past week was “Not x86 Week” over at r/Retrobattlestations and I decided to stand the HP-9000 712/100 “Gecko” RISC workstation out front for my entry. I happened upon a boot sale one weekend back...
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A Glimpse of Paradigm Simulation’s ‘Certain Impact’ for SGI / IRIX
I’ve been spending some time over the past few days with my SGI O2 which sits on a desk in my DC office. I took it off the shelf and brough it in to work so that it could get a little lunchtime use a...
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BBSing on a Virtual NeXT Cube, Thanks to “Previous 2.0”
I’ve been having a lot of fun lately spending time BBSing with many of my vintage systems. One of the systems in my collection that I have not yet used to login is my NeXTstation Turbo Color slab. Its...
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