@NanoRaptor's universe is leaking into ours https://www.aliexpress.us/item/1005005542582463.html
Also besides the #Hand386 there's the #Book8088 and at this point I wounder if #LGR is going to order both to show off...
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/1005005528944178.html
Espechally since they are commercial products one can buy, which sadly doesn't apply to the #Wee86 & #WeeCee by @rasteri [for more or less obvious reasons that are valid ofc]...
@th @NanoRaptor The dates on the chips suggest someone found a pile at the back of a warehouse?? And designed it just to piss off the people trying to remove 32 bit support.
@penguin42 the listing says "The main chip is a disassembled chip" which implies to me it is desoldered from a board, rather than NOS.
@th Oh, weird that they bother.
@th /cc @jonmasters did you already order? :D
@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…
@Kensan "oh wait"…
https://learn.adafruit.com/little-connection-machine/overview
now I need a 3D printing machine, a gazillion parts and time…
@cynicalsecurity @jonmasters @th Ohhh, very shiny blinkenlights. Might be a reason to finally give in and buy a 3D printer.
@Kensan will you please print me one too?
@cynicalsecurity @jonmasters @th I would of course, if I actually were to go out and buy a printer. However, I don’t really have space for more “stuff” like a 3D printer… probably makes more sense to use one of the 3D-printing-mail-order services. Don’t know about pricing though…
@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!
@th @cynicalsecurity @jonmasters Why not simply create your own computer museum? I would offer myself as a partner but as far as hardware goes, I have largely scaled down¹. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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¹ Once donated an Indy Workstation to Museum enter.ch in exchange for a private tour.
@th @cynicalsecurity @jonmasters Had to check if they have one and sure enough they have several NeXT machines and a NeXTCube ‘88 in particular:
https://enter.ch/home/sammlung/online-sammlung/#/detail/57047
Also a Cray XT-3 and an XT-4:
https://enter.ch/home/sammlung/online-sammlung/#/detail/53070
https://enter.ch/home/sammlung/online-sammlung/#/detail/53071
@Kensan @cynicalsecurity @jonmasters I used to occasionally receive royalties for the Cray XT-3 compute node lightweight kernel. I was on the team that built the Catamount LWK and the Portals zero-copy, OS bypass message passing layer firmware for the Seastar hypertorus mesh network, and Cray relicensed it for commercial use.
@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
@th ha, I have an IBM mainframe rack in my office, empty though.
@cynicalsecurity @th @jonmasters I had a DEC rack at one point, when I was living in a house with enough space for such things :)
@th @cynicalsecurity @Kensan @jonmasters
For plan9! But what I want is the BAXTER BR-01 Industrial Robot AS IS from the same seller
@charles_perkins @cynicalsecurity @Kensan @jonmasters Baxter gives great hugs!
@th @cynicalsecurity @Kensan @jonmasters Shouldn't that have a load of IB cabling on the back? Probably cost mor ethan the cab...
@cynicalsecurity @Kensan @jonmasters @th
I've said it before, but *someone* could make several dollars by putting out a line of ATX cases in the shape of various classic workstation designs.
@suetanvil @cynicalsecurity @Kensan @jonmasters the fanless Streamcom DB-4 looks sort of like the classic black NeXT Cube and is made entirely out of heatsinks
@th @suetanvil @cynicalsecurity @jonmasters That’s actually the case I have on the list for the next time I am doing a build! Once you go fanless…
@cynicalsecurity @jonmasters @th While looking for something completely unrelated, I found this gem in my past timeline: WOPR https://mastodon.social/@6502B/109538624464138887
@cynicalsecurity @jonmasters @th Bested by the administration! That’s stunning, I hope you have stopped kicking yourself over this…
@th @NanoRaptor you stole that form @dosnostalgic , didn't you?