Spent the weekend with Ryan P. at our friend Garrett’s BitHistory.org warehouse. We spent time helping Garrett sort and fix up some non working systems.
I spent some hands-on time with his Thinkpad 701c “butterfly” – it needed an OS loaded up on it, so I loaded MS-DOS and Windows 3.1.
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Me with 701c
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Thinkpad 701c “Butterfly”
We also spent a bit of time troubleshooting a memory issue on an IBM 5150 and getting it booting DOS.
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IBM 5150 Booting DOS
Garrett even gave me some pink 3.5″ floppy disks 😀
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Pink 3.5″ floppy disk
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We’ve finally been able to upgrade our internet service to symmetrical gigabit fiber, visitors should see significantly faster image loads (text loads were already being cached by cloudflare so shouldn’t see much difference there), we were previously hosting on a 20mbps DSL connection, so this is a big upgrade! I’d guess that any bottlenecks on our hosting now are solely in the hardware of the Raspberry Pi4 (or SD card) that’s hosting it, might need to look into migrating that into a VM on my NAS server or something.
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Gigabit fiber service
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My friend Ryan and I made the 4 hour drive out to the BitHistory.org warehouse to spend the weekend with our friend Garrett. Garrett was doing a public sale at the warehouse, we wanted to go out there to help him sort/prep and hang out for the weekend.
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Store area
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Private warehouse (with Ryan P)
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Me in the store
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Me in the warehouse
I picked up a few new goodies at the warehouse sale too:
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My partner and I were camping about 75 miles from home and happened into an antique shop and I found this cool butt-set for a reasonable price, picked it up to add to my collection of about 4 or 5 other butt-sets.
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BECO Buttset
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BECO Buttset
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My friend Ryan and I traveled from Minneapolis MN to Appleton WI (289mi/465km) and spent the weekend with our friend Garrett digging through his warehouse and geeking out over cool vintage tech.
The major items I picked up are a first gen intel Mac Mini 1,1 and an IBM 5150 with Model F keyboard and 5151 monitor.
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Me working on the IBM 5150 I ended up buying
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2006 Intel Mac Mini 1,1
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Switched DNS for my sites to Cloudflare, since my sites are all just small hobby sites I can use their free plan. I can leverage their CDN and DDoS protection, plus free SSL. Should hopefully make the site more responsive and protect my network and web-server too.
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