Category Archives: UNIX

BBSing on a Virtual NeXT Cube, Thanks to “Previous 2.0”

Posted on April 25, 2018 by Blake Patterson

I’ve been having a lot of fun lately spending time BBSing with many of my vintage systems. One of the systems in my collection that I have not yet used to login is my NeXTstation Turbo Color slab. Its a … Continue reading →

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A Glimpse of Paradigm Simulation’s ‘Certain Impact’ for SGI / IRIX

Posted on May 5, 2017 by Blake Patterson

I’ve been spending some time over the past few days with my SGI O2 which sits on a desk in my DC office. I took it off the shelf and brough it in to work so that it could get a little lunchtime use a … Continue reading →

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Tapping the HP-9000 Gecko for “Not x86 Week”

Posted on January 22, 2017 by Blake Patterson

This past week was “Not x86 Week” over at r/Retrobattlestations and I decided to stand the HP-9000 712/100 “Gecko” RISC workstation out front for my entry. I happened upon a boot sale one weekend back in 2003 and spotted an HP-9000 712/60 … Continue reading →

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My SGI O2: Down Off the Shelf and Back On the Desk

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Blake Patterson

A quick update regarding the SGI O2 system I’ve written about a few times over the years. I grabbed an O2 setup on eBay back in 2003 (went in looking for an Indy, but the O2 seemed a better proposition) … Continue reading →

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A Little App Called ‘FlyLab’ Running on My NeXTstation

Posted on August 25, 2016 by Blake Patterson

Last week was Back To School Week at r/Retrobattlestations. The challenge was to photograph your vintage computer running an educational program of some sort. For this one, a rather obscure little app that I ran across when first loading up … Continue reading →

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A Quick Tour of the HP-9000 712/100 NEXTSTEP Workstation

Posted on March 2, 2016 by Blake Patterson

February was NeXT Month over at r/Rerobattlestations. Being a huge NeXT fan, I was eager to take part in the event, which entailed taking a photo or video of a retro computer running NEXTSTEP or OPENSTEP. While my first NEXTSTEP system was … Continue reading →

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That Time I Ran Linux on the Desktop

Posted on July 16, 2015 by Blake Patterson

I stumbled upon a discussion of GNU/Linux on the desktop on Reddit recently, with someone predicting that “next year” will be the year of Linux on the desktop (with tongue-in-cheek and as it ever was). This got me thinking about … Continue reading →

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NeXTstation Turbo Color Battery Swap

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Blake Patterson

I recently rearranged the computer room a bit to bring the NeXTstation Turbo Color (which I picked up from a refurb outfit in Frederick, MD back in 2000) to the fore, having spent a good bit of time with NEXTSTEP … Continue reading →

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A Song for Steve Jobs: “Vision in Black” by Nathan J. and The NeXTsteps

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Blake Patterson

At the risk of making this seem like the Blog of Amusing Computing Promos of Yesteryear, what with my recent posts, I wanted to share something I ran across the other day. That crazy HP Series 700 promo video I … Continue reading →

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SGI Gets…Err…Got Medieval on Microsoft, HP, and Sun

Posted on May 31, 2014 by Blake Patterson

Just a quick one here, folks. Last week I posted about the crazy HP Series 700 marketing video from 1995, thinking it might be the enduring lord of all crazy tech marketing videos. And, it may be — but this … Continue reading →

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