My Vintage Computer Virtual Museum and blog page.
Picked up four inexpensive 48-port gigabit layer-3 switches (Nortel/Avaya 5510-48T) to upgrade my network infrastructure, one is acting as the backbone switch in the house, and the three others (office, workshop, and entertainment center) are linked to it with dual gigabit LACP links. The network has been reconfigured some to save power, turns out these […]
Spent the past weekend “geeking” out with my friend Ryan P and our friend Garrett of Bithistory.org. Ryan P and I drove from Minneapolis MN to eastern WI to meet up and spend the weekend playing with, and sorting through, retro computers and parts with Garrett.
I found this Teletype for sale in an antique store in Duluth, Minnesota. Seems to function in local mode, I need to get the cabling figured out and try to get it working in online mode. UPDATE: 9/2018: I was able to get this talking to a PC with the right combination of cables and […]
I spent some time last weekend cleaning up the cabling mess for our telephones and dialup server, now it’s not such a disaster. I ran all the telephone/modem connections to a 66 block rather than just hanging it all off the front of the phone switch. 12 of the analog phone lines off the PBX […]
This is now the single oldest piece of computer gear that I own, you can check out the page dedicated to it, which will be updated as I get it working, and learn more about it, but for now here’s a preview of the photos.
Here’s the photos from my trip to the Living Computer Museum.
Current machines on display in my museum, this is not my complete collection, there are some machines that are in various states of disrepair, or I just do not have room to currently display. Not all these displays are currently hooked up, there is no power on the laptop/iMac wall, so they must be moved to […]
I had a bit more room for shelving in my workshop/museum and decided to make the most of every inch I could and added an additional 2 feet to my display shelving.
I spent most of last weekend fighting with my Linux box trying to get dial in access working, after days of fighting I finally figure out the onboard serial port wasn’t working, works fine with a FTDI USB adapter, anyways YAY it works!!! I now have 3 external USR 56k modems running on here for […]
My vintage computer workshop is in a detached building, so I have run conduit and cat5 cabling from my house. I ran 4x Cat5e cables to start but also left a pulling line in place if I ever need to pull more through the conduit. The cables terminate at patch panels on both ends.