Tag Archives: UNIX

Firing Up the Apple //c for “Not x86 Week”

Posted on January 26, 2020 by Blake Patterson

As I write this, it is the last day of “Not x86 Week” over at Reddit’s r/Retrobattlestations. As one might guess, this week’s competition is to display a vintage system based on any CPU other than an Intel 8086 or … 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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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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