Running #HaikuOS on a #Thinkpad T14s Gen 3 works great. Except this laptop is so hot my fingers hurts typing on the keyboard.
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I do believe Windows 98 was the last version of Windows still available on floppy disks. A complete set includes 38 (!) 1.680K DMF format diskettes. Holy cow! 😉
#Diskette #FloppyDisk #Windows #Microsoft #90s #90er #Retro #Tech #RetroComputing #Oldschool #Emulation #86Box
Putting out a #DigiPres request:
Anyone out there in #RetroComputing fedi have, or know where I could get, #RealPlayer 5, G2, 7, or 8 for #Solaris or #IRIX? Or any other *NIX ports aside from Linux that might be out there?
Edit: Got it! Fedi is awesome!
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New video: Floppy Disk Punch
Back in the 1980s floppy disks were expensive. And many early floppy disk drives were only single sided, which means they only had one read/write head and would only use one disk side. Both Commodore and Apple-II users quickly figured out that you could flip the disk around, if you punched a hole into the other side of the disk.
#Permacomputing is about the future. Old CPUs suck (but can be fun). Permacomputing has little to do with #retrocomputing, except insofar as we can examine our past solutions for synergies and such. And pre-enshittification versions of current software. The rest is nostalgia.
Used gear is the future too. There are so many "adequate" systems made in the last 10 years, alone, that meet most peoples needs.
The only non-enshittified OSes today are *nix OSes; freebsd, netbsd, derivatives, and the various linux.
I run Debian 13, as vanilla as I can get for the least effort involved. But linux/etc today are essentially server-class installs used on the desktop/laptop. OK lots of folk on the fedi lurv to wield complexity for it's own sake and that's fine. And eg. Debian is shockingly, wonderfully reliable and given the underlying complexity, surprisingly easy to install and maintain -- if you have the skills.
But I keep wondering about how much could a linux distro be pared back to cut size and complexity? A brutally stripped distro that runs Libreoffice and not much else; and a fancier one with networking (browser memory hogs).
Is there/are there super low end linux distributions I'm not aware of?
I'm not seeing a lot of traffic about permacomputing that aren't entangled with retrocomputing. I'm hoping that's just a feature of my feeds and follows!
Total productivity!
If you were wondering if you could print from a #hpux system running a #windows3 application via Wabi via JetDirect being emulated on an Oki c542 printer.
Yes, yes you can. It all just kind of works without much fuss, except that I had to change the snmp community name for my printer because the old hpux drivers don't seem to like the snmpv2 stuff?
I'm kind of floored this all works.
Xlib: connection to "192.168.1.104:10.0" refused by server
Xlib: Prohibited client endianess, see the Xserver man page
Error: Can't open display: 192.168.1.104:10.0
Error: Couldn't find per display information
goddamn modern computers 😭
MiniDisc portable concept, made in Blender. See replies for details.