How’s your day going? Mine is cleaning the dissolved remains of the drive and counter belts of this old tape recorder and finding replacements.

I am covered in the black goo, send help!!!

ARM'd and dangerous: kzimmermann takes on the #OldComputerChallenge 2025 with nothing but a Raspberry Pi Model B.

https://kzimmermann.0x.no/articles/old_computer_challenge_2025.html

Yes, it's late - but it's done. Sorry for the delay, I was having too much fun learning #NetBSD, I guess :D

I was having problems with rxvt-unicode in #NetBSD (I think they don't have its terminfo definitions by default) and xterm was pretty ugly to work with.

So I instead went with another old terminal I haven't used in quite literally a decade: Sakura. It's the terminal emulator used by the #SliTaz project, another ultra-minimalist lightweight Linux distro project. To my surprise: everything works very well, it's still pretty lightweight and also very modern!

I guess some bad things come for good reasons!

Since I have found that installing #linux has become easier and easier the last few years, I decided to conduct an experiment. I gave my 10 year old daughter a usb stick and had her install it on a Dell laptop from 2011.
I recorded the whole thing (recorded her on my phone while a capture card recorded her screen). And for the most part, it went well. There was an issue about the correct time zone - which I believe is either due to the collapse of the US educational system or even more likely her mother's fault. Unfortunately, after installing Linux Mint all the way. She wasn't able to get the wireless card working. In her defense, I couldn't either until I connected a cat5 cable and downloaded the drivers.
The thing is: I was able to connect to the wireless router when I booted to the live distro. The drivers had to have been on the stick! Why didn't they install?
#linuxmint
#endof10
#Dell
#oldcomputers

Would it be possible to concoct some kind of car that strongly identifies with a personal computer? Like, not decorate it with ram sticks or anything like that but design a dashboard instruments center console and seats that fit in neatly with 80s 90s beige pc design language
#weirdcarmastodon #oldcomputers

Microsoft's latest revelation: Your trusty old computer is *totally* fine, and you're just a tech hypochondriac! Meanwhile, the article's been barred from entry like an underage teen at a nightclub—403 Forbidden, indeed!
https://technical.ly/civic-news/windows-11-upgrade-myth-old-pcs-still-work/ #Microsoft #TechHypochondria #403Forbidden #OldComputers #Humor #HackerNews #ngated

Here's a quick short about the Psion organizer 2.

https://youtube.com/shorts/viG3RTCRdko?feature=share

Basic dialects – poisk (search)

https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/05/basic-dialects-poisk-search.html

My first operating system was CP/M. An operating system created in 1974 by Gary Kildall, the founder of Digital Research. Few people knows who was Gary Kildall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall) and his CPM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M).

Apple and Microsoft have taken the history for them..

I'm still trying to get my head around the fact that a Heathkit H11 was really a DEC PDP11 in disguise.

Impressive. A machine from 1999 running modern-day Linux with #Antix...

...FROM A LIVE CD!

https://reddit.com/comments/1kgoqki

No idea how usable it is, but it even loaded up a browsing session thanks to the amazing #NetSurf.

Some of my interests:

#art
#music
#synths #modular #analog #berlinschool
#earth
#science #history #archeology
#space #sciencefiction #scifi #scifiart
#ufos #ovnis
#reader #writer #blogger
#photography
#linux #opensource
#BBS #ANSI #ASCII #ansiart #asciiart
#retro #vintage
#MSDOS #DOSGaming #CPM
#retrogaming #retrocomputing #oldcomputers #oldcomputing
#gaming #videogames #videogaming #gamedev #indiegamedev
#rpg #dnd #rogue #nethack
#mmorpg
#tetris

& more..
#introduction

Don't Throw Away Your Old Laptop

https://libre2.news.blog/2025/04/08/dont-throw-away-your-old-laptop

I can hardly explain just how crazy warp speed this is to me. I started on my 1200 baud modem, lived through the 'what even is 56k spec'.