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I’m looking for a Thinkpad W520 or any Thinkpad with at least 500GB hard drive, and most importantly it needs.. FireWire, specifically the Texas Instruments chipset (so no T510, etc)
Anyone got one??
I’m looking for a Thinkpad W520 or any Thinkpad with at least 500GB hard drive, and most importantly it needs.. FireWire, specifically the Texas Instruments chipset (so no T510, etc)
Anyone got one??
At one time it was state of the art, and they kept using it. I wonder if some of these are still in use in some silo in North Dakota?
#RetroComputers
At one time it was state of the art, and they kept using it. I wonder if some of these are still in use in some silo in North Dakota?
#RetroComputers
More INIT HELLO fun at the System Source Computer Museum today!
#INITHELLO#SystemSource #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #computers #computinghistory #vintagetech #vintage #museums
More fun from the show this weekend.
#INITHELLO#SystemSource #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #computers #computinghistory #vintagetech #vintage #museums
More INIT HELLO fun at the System Source Computer Museum today!
#INITHELLO#SystemSource #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #computers #computinghistory #vintagetech #vintage #museums
So if you ever wondered how OpenBSD 7.7 (most recent one at the time of writing) works on 23-year old PC, I have recorded a boot process.
CPU: AMD Athlon 😜 2000+ (single-core 1.6 Ghz) from 2002. i386, of course
RAM: 512 Mb DDR2
HDD: Some Western Digital 80Gb hard drive from ~2004
Fresh OpenBSD installation without any tweaks and tuning boots in 88 seconds.
There's definitely a room for improvement such as turning off libraries reordering (we should't worry about security too much on such machine). Less then a minute is easily possible.
But still, results are amazing, I think. It's a 23-year old PC! And it runs the most recent OS without any trouble. Try to do that with Windows 11 or any mainstream Linux distro.
Also, #FVWM is pretty snappy and works just fine.
So if you ever wondered how OpenBSD 7.7 (most recent one at the time of writing) works on 23-year old PC, I have recorded a boot process.
CPU: AMD Athlon 😜 2000+ (single-core 1.6 Ghz) from 2002. i386, of course
RAM: 512 Mb DDR2
HDD: Some Western Digital 80Gb hard drive from ~2004
Fresh OpenBSD installation without any tweaks and tuning boots in 88 seconds.
There's definitely a room for improvement such as turning off libraries reordering (we should't worry about security too much on such machine). Less then a minute is easily possible.
But still, results are amazing, I think. It's a 23-year old PC! And it runs the most recent OS without any trouble. Try to do that with Windows 11 or any mainstream Linux distro.
Also, #FVWM is pretty snappy and works just fine.
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