My Vintage Computer Virtual Museum and blog page.
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. I picked up a few new goodies […]
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.
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 […]
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.
Spent my birthday weekend visiting my friend Garrett’s new BitHistory.org warehouse. Picked up a few goodies, a new rack mount server (8-bay) and disk shelf (12-bay) to replace my previous Z800 NAS server lost to the basement flood. Also picked up some vintage gear while I was there, a cool painted Zenith Z-180 series laptop, and […]
Got everything moved over to the new backbone switch, it’s just temporarily installed on the wall until we get the 19″ rack cabinet moved into the basement (it needs to be disassembled first to fit down the stairs). Should be some noticable power savings too, this uses 1/4 of the power that the previous Avaya/Nortel […]
We had a basement flood about 2 months ago now caused by a burst water heater, it destroyed some of the infrastructure systems for our house, unfortunately my NAS servers, some network gear, and house mechanical systems were all flooded and damaged/lost. Luckily my Router, CCTV surveillance server, and domain controller were all sitting on […]
My friend Ryan and I drove the ~4.5 hours from Minneapolis, MN to Appleton, WI to visit our friend Garrett to geek out and dig through his Bithistory.org warehouse. We had a great time hanging out as usual, and hauled home some goodies.
Our apologies, the UPS running our: modem, router, switch, and the raspberry pi running this server died yesterday morning (ungrateful thing, I just changed out it’s batteries and special 24volt fan too). We’re running on utility power for now, the UPS will have to be replaced soon.