@davefischer@hachyderm.io
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May 06, 2026
Seventeen years ago! I bought this multi-million dollar hoard of Sun servers from a scrap yard for $300. After testing, fixing, and swapping parts to max out some of them, I traded a couple for an SGI Onyx for the museum, a few more for parts of what eventually became my personal 16-proc Origin-2000, and kept two as compute servers for my film making.
(A maxxed-out E4000 has 14 x 400 Mhz UltraSparc II's, and 14 gig of ram (In 128meg sticks! Ha ha ha. Warm.)).
#RetroComputing #SunMicrosystems #HomeLab
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@occult@vox.ominous.net
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Feb 25, 2026
occult
@occult@vox.ominous.net
Serving the darker bits. #engineering #hamradio #meshcore #science #pinball #film #retrocomputing #history #poetry #urbanism #astronomy #NetBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Plan9 #Linux #Unix #Unix_Surrealism #Boston #CambridgeMA
vox.ominous.net
From a 1991 SunExpert magazine article about “What’s to come” for network protocols. The article depicts a man traveling into the 2020’s, seemingly unaware of the chaos he’ll find.
He’s going to pass @prahou@merveilles.town traveling back in time to 1991 to get some mint condition Sun workstations.
#SunMicrosystems #UNIX
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@toomanysecrets@mastodon.social
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Feb 01, 2026
Martin Bishop
@toomanysecrets@mastodon.social
#fedi22 #FreeBSD #BSD #Linux #Geek & #Nerd #Science #openSUSE #PowerShell #WSL #DotNet #Go #Infrastructure #Naturalist #StarTrek #RetroGaming #RetroInformatics #Goonie #Gnome #KDE #WindowMaker #AfterStep #FVWM #Enlightenment Learning to code again.
mastodon.social
A fascinating look back at 1994: Bud Tribble explaining the pivotal alliance between NeXT and Sun Microsystems.
It’s incredible to read how OpenStep was pitched as the "mature" object-oriented solution back then—laying the groundwork for the architecture we still use today in macOS. Real engineering history.
#RetroComputing #NeXTSTEP #SunMicrosystems #TechHistory #Unix #OpenStep #Apple
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/nextworld-interviews-bud-tribble
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