@NanoRaptor's universe is leaking into ours https://www.aliexpress.us/item/1005005542582463.html

@th /cc @jonmasters did you already order? :D

@Kensan @th ugh, caught me. Yeah, I did

@jonmasters @th Well some things are predictable ;) I guess that leaves @jessfraz … (but she does no longer frequent these parts of the Fediverse it seems.)

@Kensan there were 60 available and @jonmasters bought them all, possibly leaving one for @th … for once I have to confess I was not keen on this particular model¹ as much as I would for other computers of my past (a Data General Aviion with m88k and DG/UX, my first introduction to GNU software, for example).

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¹ my true list is along the lines of: a Connection Machine "mini version", a bit like the "mini" Cray with software someone had made, a Data General Aviion, the ONYX Z8008 with Version 7 of my youth, and a NeXT which I could never afford (and still can't).

@cynicalsecurity @jonmasters @th Put me down for a NeXT! Especially now that somebody put NeXTSTEP on GitHub. There must be some enthusiast kit or something that allows you to recreate it…
Also, I would have thought you could have gotten one out of a dumpster at CERN at some point… 😆

@Kensan this is a long and sad story: I did have a NeXT cube from CERN in my hands back in 2001 _but_ just as I was about to walk out with it someone realised that we needed a stack of paperwork to remove it from the inventory and ensure that it was all above board (the machine had been sitting there unused for a decade or so). So out of the car it came and that was the end. I suspect someone far more unscrupulous took it without bothering about the inevitable inventory mess someone would have had to fix…

@jonmasters @th

@Kensan "oh wait"…

https://learn.adafruit.com/little-connection-machine/overview

now I need a 3D printing machine, a gazillion parts and time…

@jonmasters @th

@cynicalsecurity @Kensan @jonmasters why settle for a miniature CM-2 when a full size one is only a museum heist away?

@th @Kensan @jonmasters it is the storing of the heist, as usual, which is the problem!

@cynicalsecurity @Kensan @jonmasters if heisting a CM-2 isn't your style, how about purchasing a lightly used single cabinet IBM BlueGene, including the slanty rack? https://www.ebay.com/itm/224590387766